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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>, <john.hubbard@gmail.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/34] mm/gup: add make_dirty arg to put_user_pages_dirty_lock()
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:39:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0e232d84-e6ea-159e-91d4-77e938377161@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806173945.GA4748@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>

On 8/6/19 10:39 AM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 03:48:42PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
...
>> -
>>  /**
>> - * put_user_pages_dirty() - release and dirty an array of gup-pinned pages
>> - * @pages:  array of pages to be marked dirty and released.
>> + * put_user_pages_dirty_lock() - release and optionally dirty gup-pinned pages
>> + * @pages:  array of pages to be maybe marked dirty, and definitely released.
> 
> Better would be.
> 
> @pages:  array of pages to be put

OK, I'll change to that wording.

> 
>>   * @npages: number of pages in the @pages array.
>> + * @make_dirty: whether to mark the pages dirty
>>   *
>>   * "gup-pinned page" refers to a page that has had one of the get_user_pages()
>>   * variants called on that page.
>>   *
>>   * For each page in the @pages array, make that page (or its head page, if a
>> - * compound page) dirty, if it was previously listed as clean. Then, release
>> - * the page using put_user_page().
>> + * compound page) dirty, if @make_dirty is true, and if the page was previously
>> + * listed as clean. In any case, releases all pages using put_user_page(),
>> + * possibly via put_user_pages(), for the non-dirty case.
> 
> I don't think users of this interface need this level of detail.  I think
> something like.
> 
>  * For each page in the @pages array, release the page.  If @make_dirty is
>  * true, mark the page dirty prior to release.

Yes, it is too wordy, I'll change to that.

> 
...
>> -void put_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages)
>> -{
>> -	__put_user_pages_dirty(pages, npages, set_page_dirty_lock);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * TODO: this can be optimized for huge pages: if a series of pages is
>> +	 * physically contiguous and part of the same compound page, then a
>> +	 * single operation to the head page should suffice.
>> +	 */
> 
> I think this comment belongs to the for loop below...  or just something about
> how to make this and put_user_pages() more efficient.  It is odd, that this is
> the same comment as in put_user_pages()...

Actually I think I'll just delete the comment entirely, it's just noise really.

> 
> The code is good.  So... Other than the comments.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>


Thanks for the review!


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-04 22:48 [PATCH v2 00/34] put_user_pages(): miscellaneous call sites john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/34] mm/gup: add make_dirty arg to put_user_pages_dirty_lock() john.hubbard
2019-08-06 17:39   ` Ira Weiny
2019-08-06 20:39     ` John Hubbard [this message]
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/34] net/rds: convert put_page() to put_user_page*() john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/34] net/ceph: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/34] x86/kvm: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/34] drm/etnaviv: convert release_pages() to put_user_pages() john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/34] drm/i915: convert put_page() to put_user_page*() john.hubbard
2019-08-05 16:53   ` Rodrigo Vivi
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/34] drm/radeon: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/34] media/ivtv: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/34] media/v4l2-core/mm: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/34] genwqe: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/34] scif: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 12/34] vmci: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 13/34] rapidio: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 14/34] oradax: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 15/34] staging/vc04_services: " john.hubbard
2019-08-13  5:23   ` Stefan Wahren
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 16/34] drivers/tee: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 17/34] vfio: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 18/34] fbdev/pvr2fb: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 19/34] fsl_hypervisor: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 20/34] xen: " john.hubbard
2019-08-05  4:15   ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 21/34] fs/exec.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 22/34] orangefs: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 23/34] uprobes: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 24/34] futex: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 25/34] mm/frame_vector.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 26/34] mm/gup_benchmark.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 27/34] mm/memory.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 28/34] mm/madvise.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 29/34] mm/process_vm_access.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 30/34] crypt: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 31/34] fs/nfs: " john.hubbard
2019-08-05  0:26   ` Calum Mackay
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 32/34] goldfish_pipe: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 33/34] kernel/events/core.c: " john.hubbard
2019-08-04 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 34/34] fs/binfmt_elf: " john.hubbard

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