Re: Yes, people use FOLL_FORCE ;)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Keno Fischer <keno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
>>      But it sounds like your JIT case actually uses it for writing -
>> but if you can write a small blurb about it, that would be nice.
>
> yes, we use it for writing. Happy to describe the scheme in more detail.

Ok, I've effectively undone that commit (not as a revert, but
semantically we should be back to 4.11 behavior).

I added in some of your comments in the commit message, so hopefully
we'll have a log of why that FOLL_FORCE is there.

              Linus