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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-06-04 00:56:37 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-04 05:09:42 +0200
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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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