[RFC PATCH v2 1/3] mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Fri Sep 11 21:19:30 AEST 2020


On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:09:39AM +0200, peterz at infradead.org wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 06:59:21PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > So, I suggest pXX_offset_unlocked()
> 
> Urgh, no. Elsewhere in gup _unlocked() means it will take the lock
> itself (get_user_pages_unlocked()) -- although often it seems to mean
> the lock is already held (git grep _unlocked and marvel).
>
> What we want is _lockless().

This is clear to me!

Thanks,
Jason 


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