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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

...st/vhost.c index 21a59b598ed8..596132a96cd5 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1762,15 +1762,14 @@ static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void __user *addr) int bit = nr + (log % PAGE_SIZE) * 8; int r; - r = get_user_pages_fast(log, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &page); + r = pin_user_pages_fast(log, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &page); if (r < 0) return r; BUG_ON(r != 1); base = kmap_atomic(page); set_bit(bit, base); kunmap_atomic(base); - set_page_dirty_lock(page); - put_page(page); + unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, true); return 0; } -- 2.26.2

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