Re: [PATCH RFC 10/19] RDMA/umem: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 05:17:31PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> GUP now supports reliable R/O long-term pinning in COW mappings, such
> that we break COW early. MAP_SHARED VMAs only use the shared zeropage so
> far in one corner case (DAXFS file with holes), which can be ignored
> because GUP does not support long-term pinning in fsdax (see
> check_vma_flags()).
> 
> Consequently, FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM is no longer required
> for reliable R/O long-term pinning: FOLL_LONGTERM is sufficient. So stop
> using FOLL_FORCE, which is really only for debugger access.
> 
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks,
Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> # Over mlx4 and mlx5.