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Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls

From Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls
Date 2016-10-27 15:50 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 27/10/2016 02:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls
> >
> > The patch is rather misidentified.
> >
> >>  virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 7 ++++---
> >>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 5 ++---
> >>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > It's a KVM patch and should have been called "kvm: remove ...".
> > Possibly the KVM maintainers will miss it for this reason.
>
> I noticed it, but I confused it with "mm: unexport __get_user_pages()".
>
> I'll merge this through the KVM tree for -rc3.

Actually Paolo could you hold off on this? As I think on reflection it'd make
more sense to batch this change up with a change to get_user_pages_remote() as
suggested by Michal.

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[PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 01:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 01:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-10-26 11:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 11:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-10-26 12:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 10:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-10-26 11:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-10-26 11:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked() calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked()  calls Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-27 02:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked()  calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked()  calls Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 15:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked()  calls Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-10-27 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] mm: remove unnecessary __get_user_pages_unlocked()  calls Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-10-27 17:40 +0200

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