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genwqe: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Mon, 18 May 2020 01:52:37 +0000 (18:52 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 19 May 2020 14:46:12 +0000 (16:46 +0200)
commitf95caf72f22d80fe1ea1167eaf51616eb7feafa3
tree5424c53a8b0ac514ac3850faf782c00d492345bd
parent782a5c3bdc0a9ac69f83870dd4e91f78a94e2770
genwqe: 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/

Cc: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200518015237.1568940-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c