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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:00:57 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/17] mm/gup: Fixup p*_access_permitted()
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On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> However, since the main use case of protection keys is probably
> databases (Dave?) and since those also might be performance-sensitive
> about direct-IO doing page table lookups, it might not be great in
> practice.

Anyway, I reverted the three commits Dan pointed to, and we can always
revisit the exact path forward later

Because regardless of what the eventual future checks will be, for
4.15 I think we'll just go back to doing what we used to do.

If somebody sees problems, holler.

                  Linus

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