orangefs: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Sat, 23 May 2020 03:59:09 +0000 (20:59 -0700)
committerMike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Fri, 29 May 2020 20:25:04 +0000 (16:25 -0400)
commit0df556457748d160013e88202c11712c16a83b0c
tree2436d8f32cf4d541a30ae62e4fd96d0fc354dc19
parent22ce85611fd5a793edf84bfc0a101077cbe85e4f
orangefs: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

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: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
fs/orangefs/orangefs-bufmap.c