On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 02:37:33PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 3/3/19 1:52 AM, Artemy Kovalyov wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 02/03/2019 21:44, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 12:24:35PM -0800, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > From: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com>
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > 3. Dead code removal: the check for (user_virt & ~page_mask)
> > > > is checking for a condition that can never happen,
> > > > because earlier:
> > > >
> > > > user_virt = user_virt & page_mask;
> > > >
> > > > ...so, remove that entire phrase.
> > > >
> > > > bcnt -= min_t(size_t, npages << PAGE_SHIFT, bcnt);
> > > > mutex_lock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
> > > > for (j = 0; j < npages; j++, user_virt += PAGE_SIZE) {
> > > > - if (user_virt & ~page_mask) {
> > > > - p += PAGE_SIZE;
> > > > - if (page_to_phys(local_page_list[j]) != p) {
> > > > - ret = -EFAULT;
> > > > - break;
> > > > - }
> > > > - put_page(local_page_list[j]);
> > > > - continue;
> > > > - }
> > > > -
> > >
> > > I think this is trying to account for compound pages. (ie page_mask could
> > > represent more than PAGE_SIZE which is what user_virt is being
> > > incrimented by.)
> > > But putting the page in that case seems to be the wrong thing to do?
> > >
> > > Yes this was added by Artemy[1] now cc'ed.
> >
> > Right, this is for huge pages, please keep it.
> > put_page() needed to decrement refcount of the head page.
> >
>
> OK, thanks for explaining! Artemy, while you're here, any thoughts about the
> release_pages, and the change of the starting point, from the other part
> of the patch:
Your release pages code is right fix, it will be great if you prepare
proper and standalone patch.
Thanks
>
> @@ -684,9 +677,11 @@ int ib_umem_odp_map_dma_pages(struct ib_umem_odp
> *umem_odp, u64 user_virt,
> mutex_unlock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
>
> if (ret < 0) {
> - /* Release left over pages when handling errors. */
> - for (++j; j < npages; ++j)
> - put_page(local_page_list[j]);
> + /*
> + * Release pages, starting at the the first page
> + * that experienced an error.
> + */
> + release_pages(&local_page_list[j], npages - j);
> break;
> }
> }
>
> ?
>
> thanks,
> --
> John Hubbard
> NVIDIA
>
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