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This code was using get_user_pages*(), and all of the callers so far
were 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>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527223243.884385-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com


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