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    rds: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() · dbfe7d74
    John Hubbard authored
    This code was using get_user_pages_fast(), in a "Case 2" scenario
    (DMA/RDMA), using the categorization from [1]. That means that it's
    time to convert the get_user_pages_fast() + put_page() calls to
    pin_user_pages_fast() + 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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