Hello,
Sorry for a quick resend but the missing vmalloc include in mm/gup.c is annoying for archs that need it and I was also told to extend CC list a bit.
I'm sending the fourth version of my patch series to abstract vma handling from the various media drivers. After this patch set drivers have to know much less details about vmas, their types, and locking. Also quite some code is removed from them. As a bonus drivers get automatically VM_FAULT_RETRY handling. The primary motivation for this series is to remove knowledge about mmap_sem locking from as many places a possible so that we can change it with reasonable effort.
The core of the series is the new helper get_vaddr_frames() which is given a virtual address and it fills in PFNs / struct page pointers (depending on VMA type) into the provided array. If PFNs correspond to normal pages it also grabs references to these pages. The difference from get_user_pages() is that this function can also deal with pfnmap, and io mappings which is what the media drivers need.
I have tested the patches with vivid driver so at least vb2 code got some exposure. Conversion of other drivers was just compile-tested (for x86 so e.g. exynos driver which is only for Samsung platform is completely untested) so I'd like to ask respective maintainers if they could have a look. Also I'd like to ask mm folks to check patch 2/9 implementing the helper. Thanks!
Honza Changes since v3: * Added include <linux/vmalloc.h> into mm/gup.c as it's needed for some archs * Fixed error path for exynos driver
Changes since v2: * Renamed functions and structures as Mel suggested * Other minor changes suggested by Mel * Rebased on top of 4.1-rc2 * Changed functions to get pointer to array of pages / pfns to perform conversion if necessary. This fixes possible issue in the omap I may have introduced in v2 and generally makes the API less errorprone.