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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:51:42 +0200
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: gup: add __get_user_pages_unlocked to customize
 gup_flags
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:37:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Some caller (like KVM) may want to set the gup_flags like
> FOLL_HWPOSION to get a proper -EHWPOSION retval instead of -EFAULT to
> take a more appropriate action if get_user_pages runs into a memory
> failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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