From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756381Ab0CaXK6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:10:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:41603 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752590Ab0CaXK4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:10:56 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] NOMMU: implement vmap/vunmap with kmalloc Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:10:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.33.1; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: uclinux-dev@uclinux.org, David McCullough , Greg Ungerer , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org References: <19891.1270076813@redhat.com> <14998.1270055484@redhat.com> <19923.1270076874@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <19923.1270076874@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3294520.skhYGag6QH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003311910.43861.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3294520.skhYGag6QH Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 31 March 2010 19:07:54 David Howells wrote: > David Howells wrote: > > > how about putting this implementation into like vmap_nommu() and only > > > rewriting vmap() to vmap_nommu() when we know it's safe ? such as th= is > > > firmware case ? > >=20 > > Well, I'd argue it's _not_ vmap(), so it doesn't really make sense to > > call it such. Perhaps some better name? Perhaps vcopy()? fair point > How about vcoalesce()? WFM, as does something like vmerge() ... =2Dmike --nextPart3294520.skhYGag6QH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLs9ZzAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBMa0QAMbHnOZ69NiuVAlbAuQu41x5 ivbwf0E7muaaCy+7osv4TgNr3kXQUoGnYTXfQ7qQ/GFpd1zWnIP9lp2dMRs/FlEO he5HRTWkjVldiZF170adKif+bTfwmdNRwunqHgxBiyr0siL+vn2CBt4NGqiDq7/c 5dtVeKy3zAQ9ghEwPKGMCrdYtDV3L5TwED9fNE6Vtxy5uS1tesAv2PAqqp5ktSv/ ab7yjuvyridGWf0ahwWHUcUB9yaIDacoPL8COPwlBeGAUGbgImyJ1jm2MfPTJyMZ Dx4EvCj7Wk8bWAmBn8gO3vnXm11h519YDzaZAfnPUe0b1WdXMIxikV7H/PZQdkfT D4rRLhylJ1BEKsuLR+hxENG1ggQQTLzqpqwhMojzzTG1fEm2g8YYWs7bHa9a7l+U thRhA4iRBMdN8E/r48BEcDTqIq1RHbRVNnUZhpXtPr9+hVjZkChuNLbVQXWgoZ0d M67HXng2zjKVN2wdIKdVKP88Xx91/ChThAx8JhDL1BWCd6NQrDBqENwk+i0R2QdG kM8yAy3y5sLNzi+27eWzB0YyBC+qLJF7n4hDPaXNBHd2nThTWFlmxLaeC5nxnhmV 1/r0nT6okyJM5d0UN0sDUeKNCdSLgoAiXwQBGujny4TilTGvbo9vzRVdzPwtNM6v mDIPMLcqKm8oR8gsgrFX =58A7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3294520.skhYGag6QH--