Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm: gup: kvm use get_user_pages_unlocked

From: Peter Feiner
Date: Fri Oct 31 2014 - 15:22:23 EST


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:35:20PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Use the more generic get_user_pages_unlocked which has the additional
> benefit of passing FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY at the very first page fault
> (which allows the first page fault in an unmapped area to be always
> able to block indefinitely by being allowed to release the mmap_sem).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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