On Wed 19-10-16 10:23:55, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 10:01 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > The question I had earlier was whether this has to be an explicit FOLL
> > flag used by g-u-p users or we can just use it internally when mm !=
> > current->mm
>
> The reason I chose not to do that was t
On 10/19/2016 10:01 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> The question I had earlier was whether this has to be an explicit FOLL
> flag used by g-u-p users or we can just use it internally when mm !=
> current->mm
The reason I chose not to do that was that deferred work gets run under
a basically random 'curr
On Wed 19-10-16 09:49:43, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 02:07 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 19-10-16 09:58:15, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:30:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>> I am wondering whether we can go further. E.g. it is not really clear to
> >>> me
On 10/19/2016 02:07 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 19-10-16 09:58:15, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:30:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> I am wondering whether we can go further. E.g. it is not really clear to
>>> me whether we need an explicit FOLL_REMOTE when we can in
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:30:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I am wondering whether we can go further. E.g. it is not really clear to
> me whether we need an explicit FOLL_REMOTE when we can in fact check
> mm != current->mm and imply that. Maybe there are some contexts which
> wouldn't work, I
On Wed 19-10-16 09:58:15, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:30:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I am wondering whether we can go further. E.g. it is not really clear to
> > me whether we need an explicit FOLL_REMOTE when we can in fact check
> > mm != current->mm and imply that
On Thu 13-10-16 01:20:10, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such that
> desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than implied by flags.
>
> The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit so it is
> easier t
Am 13.10.2016 um 02:20 schrieb Lorenzo Stoakes:
This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such that
desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than implied by flags.
The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit so it is
easier to grep fo
This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such that
desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than implied by flags.
The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit so it is
easier to grep for and clearer to callers that this flag is being u
