Timur Tabi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If I call get_user_pages() on some pages owned by a process, and then the process exits,
> are the pages still pinned, or is there some kind of automatic cleanup?
get_user_pages() will pin the pages for you. You now own the additional
refcount on those pages. You must run put_page() against each page to
avoid leaking them.
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