Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls

Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-27T15:15:42Z

On 27/10/2016 11:32, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27/10/2016 02:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls
>>>
>>> The patch is rather misidentified.
>>>
>>>> virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 7 ++++---
>>>> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 5 ++---
>>>> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> It's a KVM patch and should have been called "kvm: remove ...".
>>> Possibly the KVM maintainers will miss it for this reason.
>>
>> I noticed it, but I confused it with "mm: unexport __get_user_pages()".
>>
>> I'll merge this through the KVM tree for -rc3.
>
> Actually Paolo could you hold off on this? As I think on reflection it'd make
> more sense to batch this change up with a change to get_user_pages_remote() as
> suggested by Michal.

Okay.

Paolo