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David Hildenbrand
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GUP now supports reliable R/O long-term pinning in COW mappings, such that we break COW early. MAP_SHARED VMAs only use the shared zeropage so far in one corner case (DAXFS file with holes), which can be ignored because GUP does not support long-term pinning in fsdax (see check_vma_flags()). Consequently, FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM is no longer required for reliable R/O long-term pinning: FOLL_LONGTERM is sufficient. So stop using FOLL_FORCE, which is really only for ptrace access. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Bernard Metzler <bmt@zurich.ibm.com> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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