From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_page()
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:54:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200829145421.GA12470@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200829080853.20337-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 01:08:51AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> pin_user_page() is the FOLL_PIN equivalent of get_page().
>
> This was always a missing piece of the pin/unpin API calls (early
> reviewers of pin_user_pages() asked about it, in fact), but until now,
> it just wasn't needed. Finally though, now that the Direct IO pieces in
> block/bio are about to be converted to use FOLL_PIN, it turns out that
> there are some cases in which get_page() and get_user_pages_fast() were
> both used. Converting those sites requires a drop-in replacement for
> get_page(), which this patch supplies.
I find the name really confusing vs pin_user_pages*, as it suggests as
single version of the same. It also seems partially wrong, at least
in the direct I/O case as the only thing pinned here is the zero page.
So maybe pin_kernel_page is a better name together with an explanation?
Or just pin_page?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-29 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-29 8:08 [PATCH v2 0/3] bio: Direct IO: convert to pin_user_pages_fast() John Hubbard
2020-08-29 8:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_page() John Hubbard
2020-08-29 14:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-29 21:57 ` John Hubbard
2020-08-29 8:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] iov_iter: introduce iov_iter_pin_user_pages*() routines John Hubbard
2020-08-29 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-29 21:58 ` John Hubbard
2020-08-30 20:17 ` Al Viro
2020-08-30 20:44 ` John Hubbard
2020-08-29 8:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] bio: convert get_user_pages_fast() --> pin_user_pages_fast() John Hubbard
2020-08-29 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-29 22:08 ` John Hubbard
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