vhost: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Mon, 8 Jun 2020 04:41:15 +0000 (21:41 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 8 Jun 2020 18:05:57 +0000 (11:05 -0700)
commit690623e1b49603bdd3df4532b7911a2ce26fb4c4
treee0e6d49558e3fc75117ac8b8f8b80ae7ebd6534b
parenteaf4d22a9ea419bc4c85ad8f825a331bcc1ae340
vhost: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

This code was using get_user_pages*(), in approximately a "Case 5"
scenario (accessing the data within a page), 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: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529234309.484480-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/vhost/vhost.c