From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:50:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 16/20] mm/frame-vector: remove FOLL_FORCE usage Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20221116102659.70287-1-david@redhat.com> <20221116102659.70287-17-david@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20221116102659.70287-17-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Hildenbrand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Hans Verkuil , linux-mm@kvack.org, Nadav Amit , linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , Marek Szyprowski , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Matthew Wilcox , Christoph Hellwig , Jason Gunthorpe , Vlastimil Babka , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , John Hubbard , linux-um@lists.infradead.org, etnaviv@lists.freedesktop.org, Alex Williamson , Peter Xu , Muchun Song , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Oded Gabbay , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Tomasz Figa , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Mike Kravetz On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 11:26:55AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > FOLL_FORCE is really only for ptrace access. According to commit > 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are always > writable"), get_vaddr_frames() currently pins all pages writable as a > workaround for issues with read-only buffers. > > FOLL_FORCE, however, seems to be a legacy leftover as it predates > commit 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are > always writable"). Let's just remove it. > > Once the read-only buffer issue has been resolved, FOLL_WRITE could > again be set depending on the DMA direction. > > Cc: Hans Verkuil > Cc: Marek Szyprowski > Cc: Tomasz Figa > Cc: Marek Szyprowski > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Also code I looked at while looking at follow_pfn stuff Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter > --- > drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c > index 542dde9d2609..062e98148c53 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c > +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c > @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames, > start = untagged_addr(start); > > ret = pin_user_pages_fast(start, nr_frames, > - FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM, > + FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM, > (struct page **)(vec->ptrs)); > if (ret > 0) { > vec->got_ref = true; > -- > 2.38.1 > -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch