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author | John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> | 2020-06-04 00:56:37 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-04 05:09:42 +0200 |
commit | 2170ecfa768850bb29487baa3101c993ab7d7402 (patch) | |
tree | 6d9971618e65a4774171e792811021aeb5ccadd8 /lib/klist.c | |
parent | mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages_fast_only() (diff) | |
download | linux-2170ecfa768850bb29487baa3101c993ab7d7402.tar.xz linux-2170ecfa768850bb29487baa3101c993ab7d7402.zip |
drm/i915: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
This code was using get_user_pages*(), 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>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Joonas Lahtinen" <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200519002124.2025955-5-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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