linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm: remove unused GUP flags

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Message-ID: <4AA69405.3080403@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:27:33 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm: remove unused GUP flags

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS and GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL were
> flags added solely to prevent __get_user_pages() from doing some of
> what it usually does, in the munlock case: we can now remove them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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