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From: Huang Shijie <sjhuang@iluvatar.ai>
To: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <william.kucharski@oracle.com>, <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	<palmer@sifive.com>, <axboe@kernel.dk>, <keescook@chromium.org>,
	<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Huang Shijie <sjhuang@iluvatar.ai>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/gup.c: fix the wrong comments
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:37:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190408023746.16916-1-sjhuang@iluvatar.ai> (raw)

When CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_GUP is defined, the kernel will use its own
get_user_pages_fast().

In the following scenario, we will may meet the bug in the DMA case:
	    .....................
	    get_user_pages_fast(start,,, pages);
	        ......
	    sg_alloc_table_from_pages(, pages, ...);
	    .....................

The root cause is that sg_alloc_table_from_pages() requires the
page order to keep the same as it used in the user space, but
get_user_pages_fast() will mess it up.

So change the comments, and make it more clear for the driver
users.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <sjhuang@iluvatar.ai>
---
 mm/gup.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 22acdd0f79ff..fb11ff90ba3b 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1129,10 +1129,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);
  *  with:
  *
  *      get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, ..., pages);
- *
- * It is functionally equivalent to get_user_pages_fast so
- * get_user_pages_fast should be used instead if specific gup_flags
- * (e.g. FOLL_FORCE) are not required.
  */
 long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 			     struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags)
@@ -2147,6 +2143,10 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
  * If not successful, it will fall back to taking the lock and
  * calling get_user_pages().
  *
+ * Note this routine may fill the pages array with entries in a
+ * different order than get_user_pages_unlocked(), which may cause
+ * issues for callers expecting the routines to be equivalent.
+ *
  * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number
  * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages
  * were pinned, returns -errno.
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-08  2:37 Huang Shijie [this message]
2019-04-08  2:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] lib/scatterlist.c: add more commit for sg_alloc_table_from_pages Huang Shijie
2019-04-08 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/gup.c: fix the wrong comments Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-09  1:08   ` Huang Shijie
2019-04-09  2:49     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-09  3:04       ` Huang Shijie
2019-04-09 11:19         ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-09 14:55           ` Weiny, Ira
2019-04-10  1:20             ` Huang Shijie
2019-04-10 18:04               ` Ira Weiny
2019-04-09 20:23     ` Ira Weiny
2019-04-10  1:18       ` Huang Shijie
2019-04-10 18:08         ` Ira Weiny

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