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All of the pin_user_pages*() API calls will cause pages to be dma-pinned. As such, they are all suitable for either DMA, RDMA, and/or Direct IO. The documentation should say so, but it was instead saying that three of the API calls were only suitable for Direct IO. This was discovered when a reviewer wondered why an API call that specifically recommended against Case 2 (DMA/RDMA) was being used in a DMA situation [1]. Fix this by simply deleting those claims. The gup.c comments already refer to the more extensive Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst, which does have the correct guidance. So let's just write it once, there. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529074658.GM30374@kadam Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529084515.46259-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.