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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-05-23 06:59:09 +0300
committerMike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>2020-05-29 23:25:04 +0300
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orangefs: 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. [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages": https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/ Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> Cc: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com> Cc: devel@lists.orangefs.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
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