Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS/c-r4k: do no use mmap_sem for gup_fast()

[Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019, Paul Burton wrote:

>Hi Davidlohr,
>
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 09:37:40PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> It is well known that because the mm can internally
>> call the regular gup_unlocked if the lockless approach
>> fails and take the sem there, the caller must not hold
>> the mmap_sem already.
>>
>> Fixes: e523f289fe4d (MIPS: c-r4k: Fix sigtramp SMP call to use kmap)
>> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
>> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
>> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
>
>Thanks - this looks good, but:
>
> 1) The problem it fixes was introduced in v4.8.
>
> 2) Commit adcc81f148d7 ("MIPS: math-emu: Write-protect delay slot
>    emulation pages") actually left flush_cache_sigtramp unused, and has
>    been backported to stable kernels also as far as v4.8.
>
>Therefore this will just fix code that never gets called, and I'll go
>delete the whole thing instead.

Even better.

Thanks,
Davidlohr