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Commit dc42c8ae authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: SVM: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

This code was using get_user_pages*(), in a "Case 2" scenario
(DMA/RDMA), 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Message-Id: <20200526062207.1360225-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 78824fab
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