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author | John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> | 2020-06-08 06:41:05 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-08 20:05:56 +0200 |
commit | 55a650c35fea7cfdf989647f37960dfaf76da737 (patch) | |
tree | ab120161257378582720cc684488499c22fe32c7 /include/kvm/iodev.h | |
parent | mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages_locked() (diff) | |
download | linux-55a650c35fea7cfdf989647f37960dfaf76da737.tar.xz linux-55a650c35fea7cfdf989647f37960dfaf76da737.zip |
mm/gup: frame_vector: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
This code was using get_user_pages*(), and all of the callers so far
were in a "Case 2" scenario (DMA/RDMA), using the categorization from [1].
That means that it's time to convert the get_user_pages*() + put_page()
calls to pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls.
There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small part
of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and file
systems' use of those pages.
[1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
[2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527223243.884385-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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