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oradax: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Sun, 17 May 2020 02:08:29 +0000 (19:08 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 17 May 2020 19:46:10 +0000 (12:46 -0700)
commitaf1bcfd94168187d1e03edfbfb85fdf366365cf2
tree2b305d406679983fec172d0be7ff6f59d9549625
parent241029ce82a195c84934853c37dd0ecc17e78598
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>
drivers/sbus/char/oradax.c