From: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bcrl@kvack.org,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hughd@google.com,
cl@linux.com, mgorman@suse.de, minchan@kernel.org,
isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
wency@cn.fujitsu.com, tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] [mm-hotplug, aio] aio ring_pages can't be offlined
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:00:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BC15E1.8060806@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121130024755.b5dae17e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 11/30/2012 06:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:29:30 +0800 Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>>> add a new library function which callers can use before (or after?)
>>> calling get_user_pages[_fast]().
>> Sorry, I'm not quite understand what "library function" function means..
>> Does it means a function aids get_user_pages() or totally wraps/replaces
>> get_user_pages(), or none of above?
>
> "library function" is terminology for a general facility which
> the core kernel makes available to other parts of the kernel.
> get_user_pages() is a library function, as are the functions in lib/,
> etc. "grep EXPORT_SYMBOL ./*/*.c"
hi Andrew,
Thanks for your explanation and sorry for my ignorant question :)
As Mel said Still I can't find a way to make every guy happy..
Thanks,
linfeng
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-29 6:54 Lin Feng
2012-11-29 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-30 0:04 ` Zach Brown
2012-11-30 3:39 ` Lin Feng
2012-11-30 3:42 ` Lin Feng
2012-11-30 5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-30 7:01 ` Lin Feng
2012-11-30 7:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-30 10:29 ` Lin Feng
2012-11-30 10:47 ` Andrew Morton
2012-12-03 3:00 ` Lin Feng [this message]
2012-11-30 11:00 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-03 2:52 ` Lin Feng
2012-12-03 11:37 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-30 7:13 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-11-30 8:00 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-30 10:57 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-30 15:24 ` Domenico Andreoli
2012-12-03 2:05 ` Lin Feng
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