RDMA: Convert put_page() to put_user_page*()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Sat, 25 May 2019 01:45:22 +0000 (18:45 -0700)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Mon, 27 May 2019 23:11:11 +0000 (20:11 -0300)
commitea996974589e7987eb463d8a7c404358244755ea
tree6dbaf26aa4ac1512acfe5813fa35adf50dfda31a
parentcfcc048ca76e4927f163f178f59d557588ba32f7
RDMA: Convert put_page() to put_user_page*()

For infiniband code that retains pages via get_user_pages*(), release
those pages via the new put_user_page(), or put_user_pages*(), instead of
put_page()

This is a tiny part of the second step of fixing the problem described in
[1]. The steps are:

1) Provide put_user_page*() routines, intended to be used for releasing
   pages that were pinned via get_user_pages*().

2) Convert all of the call sites for get_user_pages*(), to invoke
   put_user_page*(), instead of put_page(). This involves dozens of call
   sites, and will take some time.

3) After (2) is complete, use get_user_pages*() and put_user_page*() to
   implement tracking of these pages. This tracking will be separate from
   the existing struct page refcounting.

4) Use the tracking and identification of these pages, to implement
   special handling (especially in writeback paths) when the pages are
   backed by a filesystem. Again, [1] provides details as to why that is
   desirable.

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

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_pages.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_sdma.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c