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    mm: add locked parameter to get_user_pages_remote() · 5b56d49f
    Lorenzo Stoakes authored
    Patch series "mm: unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked()".
    
    This patch series continues the cleanup of get_user_pages*() functions
    taking advantage of the fact we can now pass gup_flags as we please.
    
    It firstly adds an additional 'locked' parameter to
    get_user_pages_remote() to allow for its callers to utilise
    VM_FAULT_RETRY functionality.  This is necessary as the invocation of
    __get_user_pages_unlocked() in process_vm_rw_single_vec() makes use of
    this and no other existing higher level function would allow it to do
    so.
    
    Secondly existing callers of __get_user_pages_unlocked() are replaced
    with the appropriate higher-level replacement -
    get_user_pages_unlocked() if the current task and memory descriptor are
    referenced, or get_user_pages_remote() if other task/memory descriptors
    are referenced (having acquiring mmap_sem.)
    
    This patch (of 2):
    
    Add a int *locked parameter to get_user_pages_remote() to allow
    VM_FAULT_RETRY faulting behaviour similar to get_user_pages_[un]locked().
    
    Taking into account the previous adjustments to get_user_pages*()
    functions allowing for the passing of gup_flags, we are now in a
    position where __get_user_pages_unlocked() need only be exported for his
    ability to allow VM_FAULT_RETRY behaviour, this adjustment allows us to
    subsequently unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked() as well as allowing
    for future flexibility in the use of get_user_pages_remote().
    
    [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: merge fix for get_user_pages_remote API change]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161122210511.024ec341@canb.auug.org.au
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027095141.2569-2-lstoakes@gmail.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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