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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2009-06-25 11:58:55 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-25 11:22:13 -0700
commit9d73777e500929b71dcfed16eec05f6760e345a6 (patch)
tree7b2d0e7a619b4a5c994ca8789e680f6e7642849c /mm/nommu.c
parentab420e6d9c2511b862d753b70efb4e979faa0714 (diff)
clarify get_user_pages() prototype
Currently the 4th parameter of get_user_pages() is called len, but its in pages, not bytes. Rename the thing to nr_pages to avoid future confusion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 2fd2ad5da98e..bf0cc762a7d2 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp)
}
int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long start, int len, int flags,
- struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+ unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int flags,
+ struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
unsigned long vm_flags;
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
vm_flags = write ? (VM_WRITE | VM_MAYWRITE) : (VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD);
vm_flags &= force ? (VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE) : (VM_READ | VM_WRITE);
- for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
vma = find_vma(mm, start);
if (!vma)
goto finish_or_fault;
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ finish_or_fault:
* - don't permit access to VMAs that don't support it, such as I/O mappings
*/
int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force,
+ unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write, int force,
struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
{
int flags = 0;
@@ -234,9 +234,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
if (force)
flags |= GUP_FLAGS_FORCE;
- return __get_user_pages(tsk, mm,
- start, len, flags,
- pages, vmas);
+ return __get_user_pages(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, flags, pages, vmas);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);