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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen/gntdev.c: Convert get_user_pages*() to
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To:     Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
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On 9/29/20 8:09 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 8:12 PM <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/6/20 2:51 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>> In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
>>> get_user_pages*() to the new API as appropriate. [1] & [2] could
>>> be referred for more information. This is case 5 as per document [1].
>>>
>>> [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
>>>
>>> [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
>>>         https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
>>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
>>> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> Are these 2 patches queued for 5.10-rc1 ?


Yes, I am preparing the branch. (BTW, your second patch appears to have been either manually edited or not generated on top of the first patch. Please don't do this next time)


-boris