Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm/via: use get_user_pages_unlocked()

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:01:10AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:

quoted

+	ret = get_user_pages_unlocked((unsigned long)xfer->mem_addr,
+			vsg->num_pages, vsg->pages,
+			(vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);

Umm...  Why not
	ret = get_user_pages_fast((unsigned long)xfer->mem_addr,
			vsg->num_pages,
			vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
			vsg->pages);

IOW, do you really need a warranty that ->mmap_sem will be grabbed and
released?

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