Hi Marek,
On 04/24/2015 12:59 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
Dear All,
On 2015-04-02 17:25, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On 04/02/2015 05:02 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
Hello,
On Tue 17-03-15 12:56:30, Jan Kara wrote:
After a long pause I'm sending second 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. My motivation for the series is that I want to change get_user_pages() locking and I want to handle subtle locking details in as few places as possible.
The core of the series is the new helper get_vaddr_pfns() which is given a virtual address and it fills in PFNs into 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, mixed, 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 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!
Ping? Any reactions?
For patch 1/9:
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil hans.verkuil@cisco.com
For the other patches I do not feel qualified to give Acks. I've Cc-ed Pawel and Marek who have a better understanding of the mm internals than I do. Hopefully they can review the code.
It definitely looks like a good idea, and if nobody else will comment on the vb2 patches in the next 2 weeks, then I'll try to review it myself (for whatever that's worth).
I'm really sorry that I didn't manage to find time to review this patchset. I really like the idea of moving pfn lookup from videobuf2/driver to some common code in mm and it is really great that someone managed to provide nice generic code for it.
I've applied the whole patchset onto v4.0 and tested it on Odroid U3 (with some additional patches). VideoBuf2-dc works still fine with USERPTR gathered from other's device mmaped buffer. You can add my:
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com
Thanks!
for the patches 1-8. Patch 9/9 doesn't apply anymore, so I've skipped it. Patch 2 needs a small fixup - you need to add '#include <linux/vmalloc.h>', because otherwise it doesn't compile. There have been also a minor conflict to be resolved in patch 7.
I've just added patch 1/9 to my pull request for 4.2. But for patch 2/9 I need Acks from the mm maintainers. I think it makes sense if patches 2-8 all go in together via the linux-media tree. Jan, can you reach out to the right devs to get Acks?
Regards,
Hans