On Wed 19-10-16 10:06:46, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > yes this is the desirable and expected behavior.
> >
> > > wonder if this is desirable behaviour or whether this ought to be limited
> > > to
> > > ptrace system calls. Regardless,
On Thu 13-10-16 01:20:18, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This patch removes the write parameter from __access_remote_vm() and replaces
> it
> with a gup_flags parameter as use of this function previously _implied_
> FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.
>
> We make thi
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> yes this is the desirable and expected behavior.
>
> > wonder if this is desirable behaviour or whether this ought to be limited to
> > ptrace system calls. Regardless, by making the flag more visible it makes it
> > easier to see that
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:13:52AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 19-10-16 09:59:03, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Thu 13-10-16 01:20:18, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > This patch removes the write parameter from __access_remote_vm() and
> > > replaces it
> > > with a gup_flags parameter as use of thi
On Wed 19-10-16 09:59:03, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 13-10-16 01:20:18, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > This patch removes the write parameter from __access_remote_vm() and
> > replaces it
> > with a gup_flags parameter as use of this function previously _implied_
> > FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch
On Wed 19-10-16 09:40:45, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:13:52AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 19-10-16 09:59:03, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > On Thu 13-10-16 01:20:18, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > > This patch removes the write parameter from __access_remote_vm() and
> > > >
This patch removes the write parameter from __access_remote_vm() and replaces it
with a gup_flags parameter as use of this function previously _implied_
FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.
We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising behav
