Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 16/20] mm/frame-vector: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 11:26:55AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> FOLL_FORCE is really only for ptrace access. According to commit
> 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are always
> writable"), get_vaddr_frames() currently pins all pages writable as a
> workaround for issues with read-only buffers.
> 
> FOLL_FORCE, however, seems to be a legacy leftover as it predates
> commit 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are
> always writable"). Let's just remove it.
> 
> Once the read-only buffer issue has been resolved, FOLL_WRITE could
> again be set depending on the DMA direction.
> 
> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Also code I looked at while looking at follow_pfn stuff

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> index 542dde9d2609..062e98148c53 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
>  	start = untagged_addr(start);
>  
>  	ret = pin_user_pages_fast(start, nr_frames,
> -				  FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> +				  FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
>  				  (struct page **)(vec->ptrs));
>  	if (ret > 0) {
>  		vec->got_ref = true;
> -- 
> 2.38.1
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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