From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:10:35 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Message-ID: <20040218211035.A13866@infradead.org> References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <20040217073522.A25921@infradead.org> <20040217124001.GA1267@us.ibm.com> <20040217161929.7e6b2a61.akpm@osdl.org> <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040218140021.GB1269@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040218140021.GB1269@us.ibm.com>; from paulmck@us.ibm.com on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:00:21AM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:00:21AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > There is a small shim layer required, but the bulk of the code > implementing GPFS is common between AIX and Linux. It was on AIX > first by quite a few years. Small glue layer? Unfortunately ibm took it off the website, but the thing is damn huge. > > it only uses "core unix" apis ? > > If they are made available, yes. That is the point of this patch, > after all. ;-) No, that's wrong. It patches the syscall table and plays evilish tricks with lowlevel MM code. > > It doesn't require knowledge of deep and changing internals ? *buzz* > > That is indeed the idea. The one on the ibm website a little ago did. You're free to upload a new one that clearly doesn't need all this, but.. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org