From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Remove open coded implementations of memclear_highpage flush
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:24:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070423192437.b159a851.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0704231919s584e55bfv99f45132b6f191c@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:49:45 +0530 "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > There are a series of open coded reimplementation of memclear_highpage_flush
> > all over the page cache code. Call memclear_highpage_flush in those locations.
> > Consolidates code and eases maintenance.
>
> If I remember right, a very similar patchset was recently submitted
> that Andrew merged in -mm(?).
yup.
> It also renamed memclear_highpage_flush
> to something like zero_user_page (though I wonder how good a name that
> is considering it takes an offset and not the whole page)
It's not a great name, but the fact that you must provide it with `offset'
and `length' arguments rather clears up any confusion ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-23 22:48 Christoph Lameter
2007-04-24 2:19 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-24 2:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-24 2:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-24 2:55 ` Satyam Sharma
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