From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:15:39 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] Distributed mmap API Message-Id: <20040302191539.6bffc687.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200403022200.39633.phillips@arcor.de> References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <200402251604.19040.phillips@arcor.de> <20040225140727.0cde826e.akpm@osdl.org> <200403022200.39633.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, sct@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Here is a rearranged zap_pte_range that avoids any operations for out-of-range > pfns. Please remind us why Linux needs this patch? > +static void invalidate_mmap_range_list(struct list_head *head, > + unsigned long const hba, unsigned long const hlen, int all) > { I forget what `all' does? anon+swapcache as well as pagecache? A bit of API documentation here would be appropriate. -- 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