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rds: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Sun, 17 May 2020 01:23:36 +0000 (18:23 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 17 May 2020 19:37:45 +0000 (12:37 -0700)
commit15bf743516ef2fbf28f45f0d247a4931bb3a433c
tree81d990e7cc2bf3e04dc61b5c8e96c208a7a65225
parentcdddbc49b8ad6749b21273e36de493cf7194335e
rds: 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: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/rds/info.c