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Now we have eliminated all callers to GUP APIs which use the vmas parameter, eliminate it altogether. This eliminates a class of bugs where vmas might have been kept around longer than the mmap_lock and thus we need not be concerned about locks being dropped during this operation leaving behind dangling pointers. This simplifies the GUP API and makes it considerably clearer as to its purpose - follow flags are applied and if pinning, an array of pages is returned. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6811b4b2b4b3baf3dd07f422bb18853bb2cd09fb.1684350871.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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.