mm/gup.c: document return value

__get_user_pages_fast handles errors differently from
get_user_pages_fast: the former always returns the number of pages
pinned, the later might return a negative error code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-13 15:35:23 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -297,8 +297,10 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm, struct rlimit *rlim_stack)
/*
* Like get_user_pages_fast() except its IRQ-safe in that it won't fall
* back to the regular GUP.
* If the architecture not support this function, simply return with no
* page pinned
* Note a difference with get_user_pages_fast: this always returns the
* number of pages pinned, 0 if no pages were pinned.
* If the architecture does not support this function, simply return with no
* pages pinned.
*/
int __weak __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
int nr_pages, int write, struct page **pages)