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| author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> | 2019-02-06 18:59:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> | 2019-02-07 20:54:02 +0100 |
| commit | b95df5e3e45914c679fa5d4ca08abdd1c98b9f50 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e87173f21b35bfbf8b2550051fa41d06b4c9fb4 /Documentation/infiniband | |
| parent | drivers/IB,usnic: reduce scope of mmap_sem (diff) | |
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drivers/IB,core: reduce scope of mmap_sem
ib_umem_get() uses gup_longterm() and relies on the lock to stabilze the
vma_list, so we cannot really get rid of mmap_sem altogether, but now that
the counter is atomic, we can get of some complexity that mmap_sem brings
with only pinned_vm.
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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