Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm/via: use get_user_pages_unlocked()

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:01:10AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> > +   ret = get_user_pages_unlocked((unsigned long)xfer->mem_addr,
> > +                   vsg->num_pages, vsg->pages,
> > +                   (vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);

Umm...  Why not
        ret = get_user_pages_fast((unsigned long)xfer->mem_addr,
                        vsg->num_pages,
                        vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
                        vsg->pages);

IOW, do you really need a warranty that ->mmap_sem will be grabbed and
released?