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| author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2024-08-02 17:55:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-09-01 20:26:01 -0700 |
| commit | 7290840de65e04c1fc59dab692468fc9600c6038 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f23351a9b659a6c9aa1c6c54c4d71ec4f3567f1 /Documentation/mm | |
| parent | 0b31a3cef4462ef99ef4667291091ecbcfcc8749 (diff) | |
mm: remove follow_page()
All users are gone, let's remove it and any leftovers in comments. We'll
leave any FOLL/follow_page_() naming cleanups as future work.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240802155524.517137-11-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst index 1ba0ad63246c..a2cd8800d527 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ Design principles feature that applies to all dynamic high order allocations in the kernel) -get_user_pages and follow_page -============================== +get_user_pages and pin_user_pages +================================= -get_user_pages and follow_page if run on a hugepage, will return the +get_user_pages and pin_user_pages if run on a hugepage, will return the head or tail pages as usual (exactly as they would do on hugetlbfs). Most GUP users will only care about the actual physical address of the page and its temporary pinning to release after the I/O |