On 11/21/19 1:54 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
On Thu 21-11-19 00:29:59, John Hubbard wrote:
Otherwise this looks fine and might be a worthwhile cleanup to feed
Andrew for 5.5 independent of the gut of the changes.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Thanks for the reviews! Say, it sounds like your view here is that this
series should be targeted at 5.6 (not 5.5), is that what you have in mind?
And get the preparatory patches (1-9, and maybe even 10-16) into 5.5?
One more note :) If you are going to push pin_user_pages() interfaces
(which I'm fine with), it would probably make sense to push also the
put_user_pages() -> unpin_user_pages() renaming so that that inconsistency
in naming does not exist in the released upstream kernel.
Honza
Yes, that's what this patch series does. But I'm not sure if "push" here
means, "push out: defer to 5.6", "push (now) into 5.5", or "advocate for"?
I will note that it's not going to be easy to rename in one step, now
that this is being split up. Because various put_user_pages()-based items
are going into 5.5 via different maintainer trees now. Probably I'd need
to introduce unpin_user_page() alongside put_user_page()...thoughts?
thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA
