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mm-allow-gup-to-fail-instead-of-waiting-on-a-page-fix
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mm-allow-gup-to-fail-instead-of-waiting-on-a-page-fix.patch
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Subject: mm-allow-gup-to-fail-instead-of-waiting-on-a-page-fix
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~mm-allow-gup-to-fail-instead-of-waiting-on-a-page-fix include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-allow-gup-to-fail-instead-of-waiting-on-a-page-fix
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1537,7 +1537,8 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_
#define FOLL_GET 0x04 /* do get_page on page */
#define FOLL_DUMP 0x08 /* give error on hole if it would be zero */
#define FOLL_FORCE 0x10 /* get_user_pages read/write w/o permission */
-#define FOLL_NOWAIT 0x20 /* return if disk transfer is needed */
+#define FOLL_NOWAIT 0x20 /* if a disk transfer is needed, start the IO
+ * and return without waiting upon it */
#define FOLL_MLOCK 0x40 /* mark page as mlocked */
#define FOLL_SPLIT 0x80 /* don't return transhuge pages, split them */
_
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thp-fix-splitting-of-hwpoisoned-hugepages.patch
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thp-fix-unsuitable-behavior-for-hwpoisoned-tail-page.patch
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