On Wed 02-10-13 12:28:11, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> (10/2/13 10:27 AM), Jan Kara wrote:
> > Provide a wrapper for get_user_pages() which takes care of acquiring and
> > releasing mmap_sem. Using this function reduces amount of places in
> > which we deal with mmap_sem.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > include/linux/mm.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > index 8b6e55ee8855..70031ead06a5 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > @@ -1031,6 +1031,20 @@ long get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct
> > mm_struct *mm,
> > struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
> > int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
> > struct page **pages);
> > +static inline long
> > +get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
> > + unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
> > + int write, int force, struct page **pages)
> > +{
> > + long ret;
> > +
> > + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> > + ret = get_user_pages(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, write, force, pages,
> > + NULL);
> > + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> > + return ret;
> > +}
>
> Hmmm. I like the idea, but I really dislike this name. I don't like
> xx_unlocked
> function takes a lock. It is a source of confusing, I believe.
Sure, I'm not very happy about the name either. As Christoph wrote
probably renaming all get_user_pages() variants might be appropriate. I'll
think about names some more.
Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR
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