On 5/26/23 14:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 04:01:14PM +0200, Arnaud POULIQUEN wrote:
As per the discussion back then: don't just blindly do the same dumb thing again and fix the interfae to actually pass in a page array, or iov_iter or an actually useful container that fits.
I suppose your are speaking about this discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221002002326.946620-3-ira.weiny@intel.com/
Yes.
If I'm not mistaken, I should modify at tee_shm_register_kernel_buf API and register_shm_helper inernal function, right?
What about having equivalent of shm_get_kernel_pages in an external helper (to defined where to put it), could it be an alternative of the upadate of the tee_shm API?
I think the fundamentally right thing is to pass an iov_iter to register_shm_helper, and then use the new as of 6.3 iov_iter_extract_pages helper to extract the pages from that. For the kernel users you can then simply pass down an ITER_BVEC iter that you can fill with vmalloc pages if you want.
Thanks for the advice!
Regards, Arnaud