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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 2/8] iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator
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David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> Switching from FOLL_GET to FOLL_PIN was in the works by John H. Not sure what
> the status is. Interestingly, Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
> already documents that "CASE 1: Direct IO (DIO)" uses FOLL_PIN ... which does,
> unfortunately, no reflect reality yet.

Yeah - I just came across that.

Should iov_iter.c then switch entirely to using pin_user_pages(), rather than
get_user_pages()? In which case my patches only need keep track of
pinned/not-pinned and never "got".

David

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