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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

...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: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---...

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