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Patch series "mm/gup, drm/i915: refactor gup_fast, convert to pin_user_pages()", v2. In order to convert the drm/i915 driver from get_user_pages() to pin_user_pages(), a FOLL_PIN equivalent of __get_user_pages_fast() was required. That led to refactoring __get_user_pages_fast(), with the following goals: 1) As above: provide a pin_user_pages*() routine for drm/i915 to call, in place of __get_user_pages_fast(), 2) Get rid of the gup.c duplicate code for walking page tables with interrupts disabled. This duplicate code is a minor maintenance problem anyway. 3) Make it easy for an upcoming patch from Souptick, which aims to convert __get_user_pages_fast() to use a gup_flags argument, instead of a bool writeable arg. Also, if this series looks good, we can ask Souptick to change the name as well, to whatever the consensus is. My initial recommendation is: get_user_pages_fast_only(), to match the new pin_user_pages_only(). This patch (of 4): This is in order to avoid a forward declaration of internal_get_user_pages_fast(), in the next patch. This is code movement only--all generated code should be identical. Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Joonas Lahtinen" <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200522051931.54191-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200519002124.2025955-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200519002124.2025955-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.