Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

[linux.git] / mm / gup.c

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index f76e77a2d34b79afec5f3032366a6bd954d1aead..aa43620a3270ec08040f75e587d4cbe7617754ff 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -385,11 +385,17 @@ static struct page *follow_p4d_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  * @vma: vm_area_struct mapping @address
  * @address: virtual address to look up
  * @flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour
- * @page_mask: on output, *page_mask is set according to the size of the page
+ * @ctx: contains dev_pagemap for %ZONE_DEVICE memory pinning and a
+ *       pointer to output page_mask
  *
  * @flags can have FOLL_ flags set, defined in <linux/mm.h>
  *
- * Returns the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
+ * When getting pages from ZONE_DEVICE memory, the @ctx->pgmap caches
+ * the device's dev_pagemap metadata to avoid repeating expensive lookups.
+ *
+ * On output, the @ctx->page_mask is set according to the size of the page.
+ *
+ * Return: the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
  * an error pointer if there is a mapping to something not represented
  * by a page descriptor (see also vm_normal_page()).
  */