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| author | John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> | 2020-05-16 19:08:29 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-05-17 12:46:10 -0700 |
| commit | 0a2576dae0328f6cb50cef9eee9ba760ddcc4691 (patch) | |
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| parent | a012c1e866a65699c806ae4a35d267de29fe85e7 (diff) | |
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oradax: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
This code was using get_user_pages_fast(), in a "Case 2" scenario
(DMA/RDMA), using the categorization from [1]. That means that it's
time to convert the get_user_pages_fast() + put_page() calls to
pin_user_pages_fast() + 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/
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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