[PATCH 1/9] mm: Introduce new vm_insert_range API

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:26:38PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:59 PM Mike Rapoport [off-list ref] wrote:

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+ * vm_insert_range - insert range of kernel pages into user vma
+ * @vma: user vma to map to
+ * @addr: target user address of this page
+ * @pages: pointer to array of source kernel pages
+ * @page_count: no. of pages need to insert into user vma
+ *
+ * This allows drivers to insert range of kernel pages they've allocated
+ * into a user vma. This is a generic function which drivers can use
+ * rather than using their own way of mapping range of kernel pages into
+ * user vma.

Please add the return value and context descriptions.

Sure I will wait for some time to get additional review comments and
add all of those requested changes in v2.

You could send your proposed wording now which might remove the need
for a v3 if we end up arguing about the wording.