Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign" get_user_pages()

From	Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign" get_user_pages()
Date	2016-02-09 16:20 +0100
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On 02/09/2016 04:46 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  - introduce the new get_user_pages() but also add macros so that both 8-parameter 
>    and 7-parameter variants work without breaking the build. We can remove the 
>    compatibility wrapping on v4.6 or so.

Do you want this done with some __VA_ARGS__ macro trickery, or did you
have something else in mind?

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[PATCH 00/31] x86: Memory Protection Keys (v9) Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 21/31] x86, pkeys: dump PKRU with other kernel registers Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 26/31] x86, pkeys: add arch_validate_pkey() Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 29/31] x86, pkeys: allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 03/31] x86, pkeys: Add Kconfig option Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 09/31] x86, pkeys: store protection in high VMA flags Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 05/31] x86, pkeys: define new CR4 bit Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 23/31] x86, pkeys: add Kconfig prompt to existing config option Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 12/31] signals, pkeys: notify userspace about protection key faults Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 24/31] x86, pkeys: actually enable Memory Protection Keys in CPU Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 15/31] mm: factor out VMA fault permission checking Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 20/31] x86, pkeys: differentiate instruction fetches Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 18/31] mm: do not enforce PKEY permissions on "foreign" mm access Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 08/31] x86, pkeys: new page fault error code bit: PF_PK Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 14/31] x86, pkeys: add functions to fetch PKRU Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 04/31] x86, pkeys: cpuid bit definition Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 10/31] x86, pkeys: arch-specific protection bits Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 13/31] x86, pkeys: fill in pkey field in siginfo Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 25/31] mm, multi-arch: pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits() Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 17/31] x86, pkeys: check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 07/31] x86, pkeys: PTE bits for storing protection key Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 02/31] x86, fpu: add placeholder for Processor Trace XSAVE state Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 16/31] x86, mm: simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 11/31] x86, pkeys: pass VMA down in to fault signal generation code Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH 22/31] x86, pkeys: dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 22/31] x86, pkeys: dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-02-02 17:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 22/31] x86, pkeys: dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-02-02 20:10 +0100
  [PATCH 06/31] x86, pkeys: add PKRU xsave fields and data structure(s) Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-01-29 19:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign"  get_user_pages() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-09 13:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign"  get_user_pages() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-09 14:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign"  get_user_pages() Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-02-09 16:20 +0100

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