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authorMaarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>2018-11-29 16:12:27 +0100
committerMaarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>2018-11-29 16:12:50 +0100
commit65ffc51aba406636a901b02067287d8535c02417 (patch)
tree206de4631c3f7d61ea552e50bde2841c558c7812 /mm/gup.c
parentd7a86dffc280cb5a2a18975d46c7b9d89b025c7e (diff)
parent1ec28f8b8ada4e4f77d1af006a3a474f4f83b8e3 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next
Requested by Boris Brezillon for some vc4 fixes that are needed for future vc4 work. Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/gup.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/gup.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index f76e77a2d34b..aa43620a3270 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -385,11 +385,17 @@ static struct page *follow_p4d_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* @vma: vm_area_struct mapping @address
* @address: virtual address to look up
* @flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour
- * @page_mask: on output, *page_mask is set according to the size of the page
+ * @ctx: contains dev_pagemap for %ZONE_DEVICE memory pinning and a
+ * pointer to output page_mask
*
* @flags can have FOLL_ flags set, defined in <linux/mm.h>
*
- * Returns the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
+ * When getting pages from ZONE_DEVICE memory, the @ctx->pgmap caches
+ * the device's dev_pagemap metadata to avoid repeating expensive lookups.
+ *
+ * On output, the @ctx->page_mask is set according to the size of the page.
+ *
+ * Return: the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
* an error pointer if there is a mapping to something not represented
* by a page descriptor (see also vm_normal_page()).
*/