[PATCH 04/10] mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Wed Oct 19 18:33:36 AEDT 2016


On Thu 13-10-16 01:20:14, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This patch removes the write and force parameters from get_user_pages_locked()
> and replaces them with a gup_flags parameter to make the use of FOLL_FORCE
> explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
> hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes at gmail.com>

After our discussion the patch looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

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