linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages

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Message-ID: <20161027070627.GA4615@lucifer>
Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:06:27 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked()
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:12:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It's a KVM patch and should have been called "kvm: remove ...".
> Possibly the KVM maintainers will miss it for this reason.
>

Ah, indeed, however I think given my and Michal's discussion in this thread
regarding adjusting get_user_pages_remote() to allow for the unexporting of
__get_user_pages_unlocked() it would make more sense for me to batch up this
change with that change also (and then in fact actually be an mm patch.)