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.comSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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