Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: mm/gup: pin_user_pages.rst: add a "case 5"

2020-06-01 Thread Jan Kara
On Sun 31-05-20 22:26:32, John Hubbard wrote: > There are four cases listed in pin_user_pages.rst. These are > intended to help developers figure out whether to use > get_user_pages*(), or pin_user_pages*(). However, the four cases > do not cover all the situations. For example,

[PATCH v2 1/2] docs: mm/gup: pin_user_pages.rst: add a "case 5"

2020-05-31 Thread John Hubbard
There are four cases listed in pin_user_pages.rst. These are intended to help developers figure out whether to use get_user_pages*(), or pin_user_pages*(). However, the four cases do not cover all the situations. For example, drivers/vhost/vhost.c has a "pin, write to page, set page dirty, unpin"