From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:41:38 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Message-ID: <20020902204138.A31717@lst.de> References: <20020902194345.A30976@lst.de> <3D73B2F9.FB1E7968@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D73B2F9.FB1E7968@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:50:33AM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/