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Message-ID: <864109.1674570473@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:27:53 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 10/10] mm: Renumber FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET down

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com> wrote:

> My point was to change that to take a 'bool unpin' because FOLL_PIN is
> not to be used outside gup.c

I need a 3-state wrapper.  But if I can't do it in gup.c, then I'll have to do
it elsewhere.  As Christoph says, most of the places will only be pinned or
not-pinned.  The whole point was to avoid generating new constants when
existing constants would do.

David.

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