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mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()

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This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from
__get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in
callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lorenzo Stoakes 2016-10-13 01:20:12 +01:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit d4944b0ece
6 changed files with 34 additions and 19 deletions
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@ -1285,8 +1285,7 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages, int *locked);
long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
unsigned int gup_flags);
struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags);
long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages);
int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,