From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-cris-kernel@axis.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add locked parameter to get_user_pages()
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 11:49:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161107104918.GQ30704@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031100228.17917-2-lstoakes@gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:02:27AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This patch adds an int *locked parameter to get_user_pages() to allow
> VM_FAULT_RETRY faulting behaviour similar to get_user_pages_[un]locked().
>
> It additionally clears the way for get_user_pages_locked() to be removed as its
> sole remaining useful characteristic was to allow for VM_FAULT_RETRY behaviour
> when faulting in pages.
>
> It should not introduce any functional changes, however it does allow for
> subsequent changes to get_user_pages() callers to take advantage of
> VM_FAULT_RETRY.
For the cris-part:
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@axis.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-07 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-31 10:02 [PATCH 0/2] mm: remove get_user_pages_locked() Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-31 10:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: add locked parameter to get_user_pages() Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-11-07 10:49 ` Jesper Nilsson [this message]
2016-11-07 11:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-31 10:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: remove get_user_pages_locked() Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-31 11:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-31 13:48 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-31 17:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-31 19:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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