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Message-ID: <1373452753.19894.19.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:39:13 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
Cc:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] KVM: PPC: Add hugepage support for IOMMU in-kernel
 handling

On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 12:33 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> It's not exactly obvious that you're calling it with writing == 1 :).
> Can you create a new local variable "is_write" in the calling
> function, set that to 1 before the call to get_user_pages_fast and
> pass it in instead of the 1? The compiler should easily optimize all
> of that away, but it makes the code by far easier to read.

Ugh ?

Nobody else does that .... (look at futex :-)

Ben.


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