[GIT PULL] tee subsystem pin_user_pages for v5.8

[John Hubbard]

On 8/23/20 11:51 PM, Jens Wiklander wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:19 PM Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:58 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/21/20 11:49 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 03:12:59PM +0200, Jens Wiklander wrote:
>>>>> Hello arm-soc maintainers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please pull this small patch converting the tee subsystem to use
>>>>> pin_user_pages() instead of get_user_pages().
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jens
>>>>>
>>>>> The following changes since commit ae83d0b416db002fe95601e7f97f64b59514d936:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Linux 5.7-rc2 (2020-04-19 14:35:30 -0700)
>>>>>
>>>>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>>>>
>>>>>     git://git.linaro.org:/people/jens.wiklander/linux-tee.git tags/tee-pin-user-pages-for-5.8
>>>>>
>>>>> for you to fetch changes up to 37f6b4d5f47b600ec4ab6682c005a44a1bfca530:
>>>>>
>>>>>     tee: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() (2020-05-26 10:42:41 +0200)
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I noticed this never got merged, but I don't see any follow-up here that
>>>> retracts it. Is it still pending merge such that I should queue it for v5.10?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think so. I had marked it in my notes as "accepted, and the maintainer will
>>> eventually merge it", and I left it at that. It's still desirable.
>>>
>>
>> Looks like it conflicts with some of the later work. Jens, given the
>> timelines here it's probably easiest all around if you rebase/respin
>> and send a fresh pull request. I could fix it up but you'd still need
>> to review that so the amount of work is probably less if you do it
>> directly.
> 
> Agree, I'll send a fresh pull request once we have this rebased.
> The conflict is with the recently added call to get_kernel_pages()
> when kernel memory is shared.
> The conflict isn't trivial, I guess we need to handle the different
> types of pages differently when releasing them.
> John, would you mind rebasing and posting the patch again?
> 

Sure. Should it be against 5.9-rc2, or something else? I can do this in the morning,
about 10 hrs from now.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA