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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned
    On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:17 PM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
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    > (Commit message collected from Jason Gunthorpe)
    >
    > Reduce the chance of false positive from page_maybe_dma_pinned() by keeping
    > track if the mm_struct has ever been used with pin_user_pages(). mm_structs
    > that have never been passed to pin_user_pages() cannot have a positive
    > page_maybe_dma_pinned() by definition.

    There are some caveats here, right? E.g. this isn't necessarily true
    for pagecache pages, I think?

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