From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161492AbXDXCZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:25:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161513AbXDXCZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:25:13 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:57153 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161492AbXDXCZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:25:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:25:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Satyam Sharma cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: Remove open coded implementations of memclear_highpage flush In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 4/24/07, Christoph Lameter 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(?). 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) and > deprecated the old name. My latest tree from Andrew does not have any of this. URL of patch?