Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 27/10/2016 02:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> >> Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls
> >
> > The patch is rather misidentified.
> >
> >>  virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 7 ++++---
> >>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 5 ++---
> >>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > It's a KVM patch and should have been called "kvm: remove ...".
> > Possibly the KVM maintainers will miss it for this reason.
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> I noticed it, but I confused it with "mm: unexport __get_user_pages()".
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> I'll merge this through the KVM tree for -rc3.

Actually Paolo could you hold off on this? As I think on reflection it'd make
more sense to batch this change up with a change to get_user_pages_remote() as
suggested by Michal.