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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-07-27 13:43:38 -0600
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2020-07-27 13:43:38 -0600
commit9d532f286914add61e02312881733a90355f153c (patch)
tree7d077623eb2f6ddd653b05a494caa3a84af876b3 /include/linux/pci_ids.h
parente1907d6752a26ccfcda1573b5a7542b056553046 (diff)
vfio/spapr_tce: 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: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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