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author | John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> | 2020-06-02 07:48:30 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-02 20:59:08 +0300 |
commit | e792031019bdc3f1eb5cac5a4171f7ffb8586c1b (patch) | |
tree | e161c580e6bdbbbc9153efc3f5e367305a1ccca5 /drivers/rapidio | |
parent | 91429023342789a89f4b6ae95b47a7df71ab6d95 (diff) | |
download | linux-e792031019bdc3f1eb5cac5a4171f7ffb8586c1b.tar.xz |
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: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew 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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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