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-rw-r--r--mm/gup.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index db5346f80a5a..76af4cfeaf68 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1740,7 +1740,9 @@ bool gup_fast_permitted(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write)
/*
* Like get_user_pages_fast() except it's IRQ-safe in that it won't fall back to
- * the regular GUP. It will only return non-negative values.
+ * the regular GUP.
+ * Note a difference with get_user_pages_fast: this always returns the
+ * number of pages pinned, 0 if no pages were pinned.
*/
int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages)
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 1fc4fa7576f7..45fc3169e7b0 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -297,8 +297,10 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm, struct rlimit *rlim_stack)
/*
* Like get_user_pages_fast() except its IRQ-safe in that it won't fall
* back to the regular GUP.
- * If the architecture not support this function, simply return with no
- * page pinned
+ * Note a difference with get_user_pages_fast: this always returns the
+ * number of pages pinned, 0 if no pages were pinned.
+ * If the architecture does not support this function, simply return with no
+ * pages pinned.
*/
int __weak __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
int nr_pages, int write, struct page **pages)