Re: [PATCH RFC 00/19] mm/gup: remove FOLL_FORCE usage from drivers (reliable R/O long-term pinning)

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On 14.11.22 07:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 09:27:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
And I'd really love to just have this long saga ended, and FOLL_FORCE
finally relegated to purely ptrace accesses.

At that point we should also rename it to FOLL_PTRACE to make that
very clear, and also break anything in-flight accidentally readding it,
which I'd otherwise expect to happen.

Good idea; I'll include a patch in v1.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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