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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from
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To:     Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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From:   David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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On 15.04.23 14:09, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> The only instances of get_user_pages_remote() invocations which used the
> vmas parameter were for a single page which can instead simply look up the
> VMA directly. In particular:-
> 
> - __update_ref_ctr() looked up the VMA but did nothing with it so we simply
>    remove it.
> 
> - __access_remote_vm() was already using vma_lookup() when the original
>    lookup failed so by doing the lookup directly this also de-duplicates the
>    code.
> 
> This forms part of a broader set of patches intended to eliminate the vmas
> parameter altogether.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> ---

I guess we should never drop the mmap lock temporarily in these cases, 
so it's fine.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb