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| author | John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> | 2020-06-07 21:41:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-08 11:05:56 -0700 |
| commit | 6a005645edd6de2b535783c96e66e08cccc5e067 (patch) | |
| tree | 96e4d1ffe1237877ac9176a6df5ea630e8181049 /mm | |
| parent | 55a650c35fea7cfdf989647f37960dfaf76da737 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6a005645edd6de2b535783c96e66e08cccc5e067.tar.bz2 | |
mm/gup: documentation fix for pin_user_pages*() APIs
All of the pin_user_pages*() API calls will cause pages to be
dma-pinned. As such, they are all suitable for either DMA, RDMA, and/or
Direct IO.
The documentation should say so, but it was instead saying that three of
the API calls were only suitable for Direct IO. This was discovered
when a reviewer wondered why an API call that specifically recommended
against Case 2 (DMA/RDMA) was being used in a DMA situation [1].
Fix this by simply deleting those claims. The gup.c comments already
refer to the more extensive Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst,
which does have the correct guidance. So let's just write it once,
there.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529074658.GM30374@kadam
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529084515.46259-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/gup.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -2918,9 +2918,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast); * * FOLL_PIN means that the pages must be released via unpin_user_page(). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for further details. - * - * This is intended for Case 1 (DIO) in Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst. It - * is NOT intended for Case 2 (RDMA: long-term pins). */ int pin_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) @@ -2994,9 +2991,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pin_user_pages_fast_only); * * FOLL_PIN means that the pages must be released via unpin_user_page(). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details. - * - * This is intended for Case 1 (DIO) in Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst. It - * is NOT intended for Case 2 (RDMA: long-term pins). */ long pin_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, @@ -3030,9 +3024,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pin_user_pages_remote); * * FOLL_PIN means that the pages must be released via unpin_user_page(). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details. - * - * This is intended for Case 1 (DIO) in Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst. It - * is NOT intended for Case 2 (RDMA: long-term pins). */ long pin_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, |