From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:46:27 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] lockless get_user_pages In-Reply-To: <20080527022801.GB21578@wotan.suse.de> References: <20080527095519.4676.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080527022801.GB21578@wotan.suse.de> Message-Id: <20080527114350.4679.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , shaggy@austin.ibm.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org List-ID: > Aw, nobody likes fast_gup? ;) Ah, I misunderstood your intention. I thought you disklike fast_gup.. I don't dislike it :() > > Technically get_user_pages_lockless is wrong: the implementation may > not be lockless so one cannot assume it will not take mmap sem and > ptls. agreed. > But I do like to make it clear that it is related to get_user_pages. > get_current_user_pages(), maybe? Hmm, that's harder to grep for > both then I guess. get_user_pages_current? Yeah, good name. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org