linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/gup: Documentation/vm/get_user

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Message-ID: <8655ea8a-4c43-c824-942b-bff06cf69a04@nvidia.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:53:50 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>, <john.hubbard@...il.com>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Benvenuti <benve@...co.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/gup: Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst,
 MAINTAINERS

On 2/5/19 8:40 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 09:21:35PM -0800, john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
>>
>> 1. Added Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst
>>
>> 2. Added a GET_USER_PAGES entry in MAINTAINERS
>>
>> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
>> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  Documentation/vm/index.rst          |   1 +
>>  MAINTAINERS                         |  10 ++
>>  3 files changed, 208 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..8598f20afb09
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst
> 
> It's great to see docs coming alone with the patches! :)
> 
> Yet, I'm a bit confused. The documentation here mostly describes the
> existing problems that this patchset aims to solve, but the text here does
> not describe the proposed solution.
> 

Yes, that's true. I'll take another pass at it with that in mind.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA