From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] powerpc: unmap_vm_area becomes unmap_kernel_range
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:48:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179287317.32247.207.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070516034600.18427DDEE4@ozlabs.org>
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:45 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch renames unmap_vm_area to unmap_kernel_range and make
> it take an explicit range instead of a vm_area struct. This makes
> it more versatile for code that wants to play with kernel page
> tables outside of the standard vmalloc area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
BTW, sorry for the incorrect title, it's not powerpc specific really
(though I want to use the new function from powerpc code)
Ben.
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