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...igned-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> > --- > Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst > index 4675b04e8829..b9f2688a2c67 100644 > --- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst > +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst > @@ -171,6 +171,26 @@ If only struct page data (as opposed to the actual memory contents that a page > is tracking) is affected, then normal GUP calls are sufficien...

This is based on Linux 5.7, plus one prerequisite patch: "mm/gup: update pin_user_pages.rst for "case 3" (mmu notifiers)" [1] Changes since v1: removed references to set_page_dirty*(), in response to Souptick Joarder's review (thanks!). Cover letter for v1, edited/updated slightly: It recently became clear to me that there are some get_user_pages*() callers that

Hi, It recently became clear to me that there are some get_user_pages*() callers that don't fit neatly into any of the four cases that are so far listed in pin_user_pages.rst. vhost.c is one of those. Add a Case 5 to the documentation, and refer to that when converting vhost.c. Thanks to Jan Kara for helping me (again) in understanding the interaction between get_user_pages() and page

...-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> --- Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst index 4675b04e8829..b9f2688a2c67 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst @@ -171,6 +171,26 @@ If only struct page data (as opposed to the actual memory contents that a page is tracking) is affected, then normal GUP calls are sufficient, and neither flag...

...ux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> --- Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst index 4675b04e8829..6068266dd303 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst @@ -171,6 +171,24 @@ If only struct page data (as opposed to the actual memory contents that a page is tracking) is affected, then normal GUP calls are sufficient, and neither flag...