Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2019-07-23

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net/xdp: convert put_page() to put_user_page*()

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Date: 2019-07-23 12:47:11
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 09:41:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
* The leading underscores are often used for the more elaborate form of the
call (as oppposed to decorating the core function name with "_flags", for
example).
IMHO usually the __ version of a public symbol means something like
'why are you using this? you probably should not'

Often because the __ version has no locking or some other dangerous
configuration like that.

Jason
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