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authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>2009-06-16 15:31:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 19:47:30 -0700
commitd2bf6be8ab63aa84e6149aac934649aadf3828b1 (patch)
tree65e7f74f1ed6fd9516f1615b0f293d2aaeede07b /include
parent7ffc59b4d0bdfa00e882339f85b8a969bb7021e2 (diff)
mm: clean up get_user_pages_fast() documentation
Move more documentation for get_user_pages_fast into the new kerneldoc comment. Add some comments for get_user_pages as well. Also, move get_user_pages_fast declaration up to get_user_pages. It wasn't there initially because it was once a static inline function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h20
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 33da7f53884..a880161a385 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -824,8 +824,11 @@ static inline int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
extern int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end);
extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write);
-int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
- int len, int write, int force, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
+int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force,
+ struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
+int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
+ struct page **pages);
extern int try_to_release_page(struct page * page, gfp_t gfp_mask);
extern void do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
@@ -850,19 +853,6 @@ extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long end, unsigned long newflags);
/*
- * get_user_pages_fast provides equivalent functionality to get_user_pages,
- * operating on current and current->mm (force=0 and doesn't return any vmas).
- *
- * get_user_pages_fast may take mmap_sem and page tables, so no assumptions
- * can be made about locking. get_user_pages_fast is to be implemented in a
- * way that is advantageous (vs get_user_pages()) when the user memory area is
- * already faulted in and present in ptes. However if the pages have to be
- * faulted in, it may turn out to be slightly slower).
- */
-int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
- struct page **pages);
-
-/*
* A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
*
* 'shrink' is passed a count 'nr_to_scan' and a 'gfpmask'. It should