Thread (62 messages) 62 messages, 11 authors, 2020-09-15

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

From: peterz@infradead.org
Date: 2020-09-11 07:11:22
Also in: linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, linux-s390, linux-um, lkml, sparclinux

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().
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