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>
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 2fd2ad5..bf0cc76 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@
}
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 @@
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 @@
* - 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 @@
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);