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authorJohn Hubbard <[email protected]>2020-05-16 19:08:29 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <[email protected]>2020-05-17 12:46:10 -0700
commit0a2576dae0328f6cb50cef9eee9ba760ddcc4691 (patch)
tree2b305d406679983fec172d0be7ff6f59d9549625 /tools/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace
parenta012c1e866a65699c806ae4a35d267de29fe85e7 (diff)
oradax: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
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 <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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