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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:55:45 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: reorganize internal_get_user_pages_fast()
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:33:01AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Actually there are callers that care about partial success. See e.g.
> iov_iter_get_pages() usage in fs/direct_io.c:dio_refill_pages() or
> bio_iov_iter_get_pages(). These places handle partial success just fine and
> not allowing partial success from GUP could regress things...

But most users do indeed not care.  Maybe an explicit FOLL_PARTIAL to
opt into partial handling could clean up a lot of the mess.  Maybe just
for pin_user_pages for now.