Re: [PATCH] staging: kpc2000: kpc_dma: Convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

[John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>]

On 2020-06-08 12:16, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:05:57PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 2020-06-08 12:01, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:15 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2020-05-31 10:51, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>>>> In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
>>>>> get_user_pages*() to the new API as appropriate. [1] & [2] could
>>>>> be referred for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> When pin_user_pages() returns numbers of partially mapped pages,
>>>>> those pages were not unpinned as part of error handling. Fixed
>>>>> it as part of this patch.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Souptick,
>>>>
>>>> btw, Bharath (+cc) attempted to do the "put" side of this, last year.
>>>> That got as far as a v4 patch [1], and then I asked him to let me put
>>>> it into my tree. But then it didn't directly apply anymore after the
>>>> whole design moved to pin+unpin, and so here we are now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If Bharath is still doing kernel work, you might offer him a Co-Developed-by:
>>>> tag (see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html).
>>>
>>> Sure, will add him as *Co-Developed-by*
>>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, but it's best to wait and see if he responds, before adding that tag, because
>> it also required a Signed-off-by from him.
> 
> Souptick is porting patches from your tree?  It's not clear to me how
> Bharath actually helped author this patch.


What happened is that Bharath wrote patches very similar to these, last year.
And we spent some time on review and figuring out pre-existing issues in the code.

Anyway, I suspect that he's not actually involved anymore, so I probably shouldn't
have done any more than to just put him on Cc. Sorry for any confusion I created
here.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA