On 7/23/19 11:06 AM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 09:41:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 7/22/19 5:25 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:34:15PM -0700, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
...
>> Obviously, this stuff is all subject to a certain amount of opinion, but I
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 09:41:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/22/19 5:25 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:34:15PM -0700, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > From: John Hubbard
> > >
> > > For pages that were retained via get_user_pages*(), release those pages
> > > via t
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 09:41:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> * The leading underscores are often used for the more elaborate form of the
> call (as oppposed to decorating the core function name with "_flags", for
> example).
IMHO usually the __ version of a public symbol means something like
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On 7/22/19 5:25 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:34:15PM -0700, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
From: John Hubbard
For pages that were retained via get_user_pages*(), release those pages
via the new put_user_page*() routines, instead of via put_page() or
release_pages().
This is
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:34:15PM -0700, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard
>
> For pages that were retained via get_user_pages*(), release those pages
> via the new put_user_page*() routines, instead of via put_page() or
> release_pages().
>
> This is part a tree-wide conversio
From: John Hubbard
For pages that were retained via get_user_pages*(), release those pages
via the new put_user_page*() routines, instead of via put_page() or
release_pages().
This is part a tree-wide conversion, as described in commit fc1d8e7cca2d
("mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder v
