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    KVM: SVM: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() · dc42c8ae
    John Hubbard authored
    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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
    Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
    Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
    Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: x86@kernel.org
    Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Message-Id: <20200526062207.1360225-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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