[PATCH RFC v3 1/4] mm: gup: rename "nonblocking" to "locked" where proper

2018-11-20 Thread Peter Xu
There's plenty of places around __get_user_pages() that has a parameter "nonblocking" which does not really mean that "it won't block" (because it can really block) but instead it shows whether the mmap_sem is released by up_read() during the page fault handling mostly when VM_FAULT_RETRY is

[PATCH RFC v3 1/4] mm: gup: rename "nonblocking" to "locked" where proper

2018-11-20 Thread Peter Xu
There's plenty of places around __get_user_pages() that has a parameter "nonblocking" which does not really mean that "it won't block" (because it can really block) but instead it shows whether the mmap_sem is released by up_read() during the page fault handling mostly when VM_FAULT_RETRY is