scsi: st: Convert convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
This code was using get_user_pages*(), in a "Case 1" scenario (Direct IO), 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] Also, this deletes one of the two FIXME comments (about refcounting), because there is nothing wrong with the refcounting at this point. [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/20190723153640.GB720@lst.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526182709.99599-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Cc: "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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