[PATCH RFC 00/19] mm/gup: remove FOLL_FORCE usage from drivers (reliable R/O long-term pinning)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 09:27:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And I'd really love to just have this long saga ended, and FOLL_FORCE
> finally relegated to purely ptrace accesses.

At that point we should also rename it to FOLL_PTRACE to make that
very clear, and also break anything in-flight accidentally readding it,
which I'd otherwise expect to happen.