# \[PATCH 2/2\] video: fbdev: convert get\_user\_pages() --\> pin\_user\_pages()

- From: John Hubbard \<jhubbard@nvidia.com\>
- Date: 2020-05-22 04:15:13 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2020/05/5974566
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2020/05/5974564/t.md

```text
This code was using get_user_pages*(), in a "Case 2" scenario
(DMA/RDMA), using the categorization from [1]. That means that it's
time to convert the get_user_pages*() + put_page() calls to
pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls.

There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small
part of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and
file systems' use of those pages.

[1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst

[2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
    https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/

Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <redacted>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <redacted>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
Cc: Jani Nikula <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c
index ceb6ef590597..2d9f69b93392 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ static ssize_t pvr2fb_write(struct fb_info *info, const char *buf,
 	if (!pages)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ret = get_user_pages_fast((unsigned long)buf, nr_pages, FOLL_WRITE, pages);
+	ret = pin_user_pages_fast((unsigned long)buf, nr_pages, FOLL_WRITE, pages);
 	if (ret < nr_pages) {
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			/*
@@ -712,9 +712,7 @@ static ssize_t pvr2fb_write(struct fb_info *info, const char *buf,
 	ret = count;
 
 out_unmap:
-	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
-		put_page(pages[i]);
-
+	unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pages);
 	kfree(pages);
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.26.2
```