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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:15:00 -0700
From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: gup: add __get_user_pages_unlocked to customize
 gup_flags
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:35:17PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Some caller (like KVM) may want to set the gup_flags like
> FOLL_HWPOSION to get a proper -EHWPOSION retval instead of -EFAULT to
> take a more appropriate action if get_user_pages runs into a memory
> failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
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