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Linux/net/rds
Leon Romanovsky 0d4597c8c5 net/rds: Track user mapped pages through special API
Convert net/rds to use the newly introduces pin_user_pages() API,
which properly sets FOLL_PIN. Setting FOLL_PIN is now required for
code that requires tracking of pinned pages.

Note that this effectively changes the code's behavior: it now
ultimately calls set_page_dirty_lock(), instead of set_page_dirty().
This is probably more accurate.

As Christoph Hellwig put it, "set_page_dirty() is only safe if we are
dealing with a file backed page where we have reference on the inode it
hangs off." [1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: Hans Westgaard Ry <[email protected]>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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