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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 18:49:34 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: john.hubbard@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] infiniband/mm: convert put_page() to
 put_user_page*()
Message-ID: <20181008164934.GB11150@quack2.suse.cz>
References: <20181006024949.20691-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
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On Fri 05-10-18 19:49:49, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> 
> For code that retains pages via get_user_pages*(),
> release those pages via the new put_user_page(), or
> put_user_pages*(), instead of put_page()
> 
> This prepares for eventually fixing the problem described
> in [1], and is following a plan listed in [2], [3], [4].
> 
> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()"
> 
> [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709080554.21931-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
>     Proposed steps for fixing get_user_pages() + DMA problems.
> 
> [3]https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180710082100.mkdwngdv5kkrcz6n@quack2.suse.cz
>     Bounce buffers (otherwise [2] is not really viable).
> 
> [4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003162115.GG24030@quack2.suse.cz
>     Follow-up discussions.
> 
> CC: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> CC: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> CC: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
> CC: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
> CC: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>
> 
> CC: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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