Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm/gup, drm/i915: refactor gup_fast, convert to pin_user_pages()

[John Hubbard]

On 2020-05-22 04:40, Souptick Joarder wrote:
...
> > 3) Make it easy for an upcoming patch from Souptick, which aims to
> >     convert __get_user_pages_fast() to use a gup_flags argument, instead
> >     of a bool writeable arg.  Also, if this series looks good, we can
> >     ask Souptick to change the name as well, to whatever the consensus
> >     is. My initial recommendation is: get_user_pages_fast_only(), to
> >     match the new pin_user_pages_only().
>
> Shall I hold my changes till 5.8-rc1 , when this series will appear upstream ?

I don't really see any problem with your posting something that is based on
the latest linux-next (which has my changes now). Should be fine. And in
fact it would be nice to get that done in this round, so that the pin* and
get* APIs look the same.


thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA