linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/26] mm: Provide get_user_pages

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Message-ID: <20131002162519.GA9886@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:25:19 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/26] mm: Provide get_user_pages_unlocked()

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:27:57PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Provide a wrapper for get_user_pages() which takes care of acquiring and
> releasing mmap_sem. Using this function reduces amount of places in
> which we deal with mmap_sem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Seem like this should be the default one and the one without the locked
should be __unlocked.  Maybe a grand rename is in order?


get_user_pages_fast	-> get_user_pages
get_user_pages_unlocked	-> __get_user_pages
get_user_pages_unlocked	-> __get_user_pages_locked

steering people to the most sensible ones by default?

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