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    orangefs: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() · 0df55645
    John Hubbard authored
    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: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
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