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Commit 03358b0f authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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misc: xilinx-sdfec: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()



This code was using get_user_pages*(), in approximately 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: Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@xilinx.com>
Cc: Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@xilinx.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527012628.1100649-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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