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Message-ID: <20191104203117.GE30938@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 16:31:17 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/18] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages*() and FOLL_PIN

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 12:09:05PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:

> Note for Jason: the (a) or (b) items are talking about the vfio case, which is
> one of the two call sites that now use pin_longterm_pages_remote(), and the
> other one is infiniband:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c:646:         npages = pin_longterm_pages_remote(owning_process, owning_mm,

This is a mistake, it is not a longterm pin and does not need FOLL_PIN
semantics

> Jason should weigh in on how he wants this to go, with respect to branching
> and merging, since it sounds like that will conflict with the hmm branch 

I think since you don't need to change this site things should be
fine?

Jason

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