linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: fixup get_user

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Message-Id: <20161025233435.5338-1-lstoakes@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:34:35 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: fixup get_user_pages* comments

In the previous round of get_user_pages* changes comments attached to
__get_user_pages_unlocked() and get_user_pages_unlocked() were rendered
incorrect, this patch corrects them.

In addition the get_user_pages_unlocked() comment seems to have already been
outdated as it referred to tsk, mm parameters which were removed in c12d2da5
("mm/gup: Remove the macro overload API migration helpers from the get_user*()
APIs"), this patch fixes this also.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 16 ++++++----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index ec4f827..e6147f1 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -857,14 +857,12 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);
 
 /*
- * Same as get_user_pages_unlocked(...., FOLL_TOUCH) but it allows to
- * pass additional gup_flags as last parameter (like FOLL_HWPOISON).
+ * Same as get_user_pages_unlocked(...., FOLL_TOUCH) but it allows for
+ * tsk, mm to be specified.
  *
  * NOTE: here FOLL_TOUCH is not set implicitly and must be set by the
- * caller if required (just like with __get_user_pages). "FOLL_GET",
- * "FOLL_WRITE" and "FOLL_FORCE" are set implicitly as needed
- * according to the parameters "pages", "write", "force"
- * respectively.
+ * caller if required (just like with __get_user_pages). "FOLL_GET"
+ * is set implicitly if "pages" is non-NULL.
  */
 __always_inline long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 					       unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
@@ -894,10 +892,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_pages_unlocked);
  *      get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, ..., pages);
  *
  * It is functionally equivalent to get_user_pages_fast so
- * get_user_pages_fast should be used instead, if the two parameters
- * "tsk" and "mm" are respectively equal to current and current->mm,
- * or if "force" shall be set to 1 (get_user_pages_fast misses the
- * "force" parameter).
+ * get_user_pages_fast should be used instead if specific gup_flags
+ * (e.g. FOLL_FORCE) are not required.
  */
 long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 			     struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags)
-- 
2.10.1