Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:24:02 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 17/19] gup: Introduce FOLL_NOFAULT flag to disable page faults |
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 10:17:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I think we should treat FOLL_FAST_ONLY as a special "internal to > gup.c" flag, and perhaps not really compare it to the new > FOLL_NOFAULT. > > In fact, maybe we could even just make FOLL_FAST_ONLY be the high bit, > and not expose it in <linux/mm.h> and make it entirely private as a > name in gup.c.
There are quite a few bits like that. I've been wanting to make them private for 5.16.
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