From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261810AbUKUVT2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:19:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261814AbUKUVRe (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:17:34 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:59554 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261810AbUKUVOx (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:14:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:14:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org, AKPM@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: 3/4 mm/rmap.c cleanup Message-Id: <20041121131437.4c3bcee0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16800.47063.386282.752478@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <16800.47063.386282.752478@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nikita Danilov wrote: > > mm/rmap.c:page_referenced_one() and mm/rmap.c:try_to_unmap_one() contain > identical code that > > - takes mm->page_table_lock; > > - drills through page tables; > > - checks that correct pte is reached. > > Coalesce this into page_check_address() Looks sane, but it comes at a bad time. Please rework and resubmit after the 4-level pagetable code is merged into Linus's tree, post-2.6.10.