Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] userfaultfd: don't pin the user memory in userfaultfd_file_create()

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/17, Michal Hocko wrote:
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> On Mon 16-05-16 19:22:54, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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> > The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have more users.
>
> Is this really helpful?

Well, this is subjective of course, but I think the code looks a bit better this
way. uprobes, fs/proc and more can use this helper too.

And in fact the initial version of this patch did atomic_inc_not_zero(mm->users) by
hand, then it was suggested to add a helper.

> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> The patch seems good to me but I am not familiar with the userfaultfd
> internals enought to give you reviewed-by nor acked-by. I welcome the
> change anyway.

Thanks ;)

Oleg.