[PATCH v1 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Tue Apr 2 05:55:13 PDT 2024


Some cleanups around function names, comments and the config option of
"GUP-fast" -- GUP without "lock" safety belts on.

With this cleanup it's easy to judge which functions are GUP-fast specific.
We now consistently call it "GUP-fast", avoiding mixing it with "fast GUP",
"lockless", or simply "gup" (which I always considered confusing in the
ode).

So the magic now happens in functions that contain "gup_fast", whereby
gup_fast() is the entry point into that magic. Comments consistently
reference either "GUP-fast" or "gup_fast()".

Based on mm-unstable from today. I won't CC arch maintainers, but only
arch mailing lists, to reduce noise.

Tested on x86_64, cross compiled on a bunch of archs.

RFC -> v1:
* Rebased on latest mm/mm-unstable
* "mm/gup: consistently name GUP-fast functions"
 -> "internal_get_user_pages_fast()" -> "gup_fast_fallback()"
 -> "undo_dev_pagemap()" -> "gup_fast_undo_dev_pagemap()"
 -> Fixup a bunch more comments
* "mm/treewide: rename CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_GUP_FAST"
 -> Take care of RISCV

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt at kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: loongarch at lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-mips at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org

David Hildenbrand (3):
  mm/gup: consistently name GUP-fast functions
  mm/treewide: rename CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_GUP_FAST
  mm: use "GUP-fast" instead "fast GUP" in remaining comments

 arch/arm/Kconfig       |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/Kconfig     |   2 +-
 arch/loongarch/Kconfig |   2 +-
 arch/mips/Kconfig      |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig   |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/Kconfig     |   2 +-
 arch/s390/Kconfig      |   2 +-
 arch/sh/Kconfig        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig       |   2 +-
 include/linux/rmap.h   |   8 +-
 kernel/events/core.c   |   4 +-
 mm/Kconfig             |   2 +-
 mm/filemap.c           |   2 +-
 mm/gup.c               | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 mm/internal.h          |   2 +-
 mm/khugepaged.c        |   2 +-
 16 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)

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2.44.0




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