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Commit e7920310 authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ivtv: 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/



Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200518012157.1178336-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 91429023
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