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mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags

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This removes the 'write' and 'force' use from get_user_pages_locked()
and replaces them with 'gup_flags' 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@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-13 01:20:14 +01:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c164154f66
commit 3b913179c3
4 changed files with 15 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages, int *locked);
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked);
long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags);