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author	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
	Thu, 13 Oct 2016 00:20:19 +0000 (01:20 +0100)
committer	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
	Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:12:14 +0000 (08:12 -0700)
commit	6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef
tree	8b738e79772acf156b4bbeca09127afb7dae9554	tree \| snapshot
parent	442486ec1096781c50227b73f721a63974b0fdda	commit \| diff

mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

This removes the 'write' argument from access_remote_vm() and replaces
it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied
FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.

We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising
behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/proc/base.c		diff \| blob \| history
include/linux/mm.h		diff \| blob \| history
mm/memory.c		diff \| blob \| history
mm/nommu.c		diff \| blob \| history