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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-01-30 22:13:35 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-31 10:30:38 -0800
commitf1f6a7dd9b53aafd81b696b9017036e7b08e57ea (patch)
tree6bede48988d6b4cae3c9b2dbb986c0725f526743 /Documentation
parentbdffe23eee672fcaa732198c3661f7c1302c6bfa (diff)
mm, tree-wide: rename put_user_page*() to unpin_user_page*()
In order to provide a clearer, more symmetric API for pinning and unpinning DMA pages. This way, pin_user_pages*() calls match up with unpin_user_pages*() calls, and the API is a lot closer to being self-explanatory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107224558.2362728-23-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
index 71849830cd48..1d490155ecd7 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: ::
/proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_requested
Those are both going to show zero, unless CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set. This is
-because there is a noticeable performance drop in put_user_page(), when they
+because there is a noticeable performance drop in unpin_user_page(), when they
are activated.
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