Re: [PATCH v4 0/1] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions

From: John Hubbard
Date: Tue Mar 19 2019 - 15:24:11 EST


On 3/19/19 11:12 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> We seem to have pretty solid consensus on the concept and details of the
>> put_user_pages() approach. Or at least, if we don't, someone please speak
>> up now. Christopher Lameter, especially, since you had some concerns
>> recently.
>
> My concerns do not affect this patchset which just marks the get/put for
> the pagecache. The problem was that the description was making claims that
> were a bit misleading and seemed to prescribe a solution.
>
> So lets get this merged. Whatever the solution will be, we will need this
> markup.
>

Sounds good. Do you care to promote that thought into a formal ACK for me? :)


thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA