Re: [PATCH v4 0/1] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Tue Mar 19 2019 - 14:13:02 EST


On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> We seem to have pretty solid consensus on the concept and details of the
> put_user_pages() approach. Or at least, if we don't, someone please speak
> up now. Christopher Lameter, especially, since you had some concerns
> recently.

My concerns do not affect this patchset which just marks the get/put for
the pagecache. The problem was that the description was making claims that
were a bit misleading and seemed to prescribe a solution.

So lets get this merged. Whatever the solution will be, we will need this
markup.