Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages_locked() | From | John Hubbard <> | Date | Sun, 31 May 2020 12:56:23 -0700 |
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On 2020-05-31 00:13, Souptick Joarder wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 12:34 PM Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:02 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote: >>> >>> Introduce pin_user_pages_locked(), which is nearly identical to >>> get_user_pages_locked() except that it sets FOLL_PIN and rejects >>> FOLL_GET. > > Forget to ask, is it fine to add this new pin_user_pages_locked() in > Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst ? > I wasn't planning on maintaining a rigorous list of all of the pin_user_page*() API calls, in pin_user_pages.rst. Each call is documented in gup.c, for that. The .rst is there to help explain things at a slighly higher abstraction level.
thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA
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