[rds-devel] [PATCH] rds: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

[David Miller]

From: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 18:23:36 -0700

> 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!IT378tQVnSzhymMYg8eOkT9JIQ6DK4oWinE9QzdXaoMZjQhxMrK0Oz0_1_KensjEaE4$ 
> 
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: rds-devel at oss.oracle.com
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.