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

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This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages() 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: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.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 01:20:16 +01:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7f23b3504a
commit 768ae309a9
22 changed files with 49 additions and 54 deletions
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@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ long get_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked);