From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:27:45 +0100 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Prezeroing V2 [2/4]: add second parameter to clear_page() for all arches Message-ID: <20041224162745.GA1178@elf.ucw.cz> References: <41C20E3E.3070209@yahoo.com.au> <20041224083337.GA1043@openzaurus.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi! > > > o Extend clear_page to take an order parameter for all architectures. > > > > > > > I believe you sould leave clear_page() as is, and introduce > > clear_pages() with two arguments. > > Did that in V1 and Andi Kleen complained about it. I do not know what Andi said, but having clear_page clearing two page*s* seems wrong to me. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! -- 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