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authorJohn Hubbard <[email protected]>2020-05-18 04:13:07 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>2020-05-19 14:46:12 +0000
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drivers/mic/scif: 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. Note that this effectively changes the code's behavior as well: it now ultimately calls set_page_dirty_lock(), instead of SetPageDirty(). This is probably more accurate. As Christoph Hellwig put it, "set_page_dirty() is only safe if we are dealing with a file backed page where we have reference on the inode it hangs off." [3] [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages": https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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