From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:41:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020902204138.A31717@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D73B2F9.FB1E7968@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:50:33AM -0700
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:50:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > This patch was done after Linus requested it when I intended to split
> > madvice out of filemap.c. We extend splitvma() in mmap.c to take
> > another argument that specifies whether to split above or below the
> > address given, and thus can use it in those function, cleaning them up
> > a lot and removing most of their code.
> >
>
> This description seems to have leaked from a different patch.
>
> Your patch purely shuffles code about, yes?
No. it makes madvise/mlock/mprotect use slit_vma (that involved from
splitvma). There is no change in behaviour (verified by ltp testruns),
but the implementation is very different, and lots of code is gone.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 17:43 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-02 18:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 18:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-09-02 19:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 19:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-02 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
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