[PATCH 2/4] mm: introduce put_user_page(), placeholder version

From: john . hubbard
Date: Fri Sep 28 2018 - 01:40:07 EST


From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page().
This provides a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers,
so that they call put_user_page(), instead of put_page().

Also adds release_user_pages(), a drop-in replacement for
release_pages(). This is intended to be easily grep-able,
for later performance improvements, since release_user_pages
is not batched like release_pages() is, and is significantly
slower.

Also: rename goldfish_pipe.c's release_user_pages(), in order
to avoid a naming conflict with the new external function of
the same name.

This prepares for eventually fixing the problem described
in [1], and is following a plan listed in [2].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()"

[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709080554.21931-1-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Proposed steps for fixing get_user_pages() + DMA problems.

CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Christopher Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
CC: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/mm.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
index 2da567540c2d..fad0345376e0 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int pin_user_pages(unsigned long first_page, unsigned long last_page,

}

-static void release_user_pages(struct page **pages, int pages_count,
+static void __release_user_pages(struct page **pages, int pages_count,
int is_write, s32 consumed_size)
{
int i;
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int transfer_max_buffers(struct goldfish_pipe *pipe,

*consumed_size = pipe->command_buffer->rw_params.consumed_size;

- release_user_pages(pages, pages_count, is_write, *consumed_size);
+ __release_user_pages(pages, pages_count, is_write, *consumed_size);

mutex_unlock(&pipe->lock);

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a61ebe8ad4ca..72caf803115f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -943,6 +943,20 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
__put_page(page);
}

+/* Placeholder version, until all get_user_pages*() callers are updated. */
+static inline void put_user_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ put_page(page);
+}
+
+/* A drop-in replacement for release_pages(): */
+static inline void release_user_pages(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned long npages)
+{
+ while (npages)
+ put_user_page(pages[--npages]);
+}
+
#if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM) && !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
#define SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
#endif
--
2.19.0