From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
uclinux-dev@uclinux.org, David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>,
Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] NOMMU: implement vmap/vunmap with kmalloc
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:07:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19923.1270076874@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19891.1270076813@redhat.com>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > how about putting this implementation into like vmap_nommu() and only
> > rewriting vmap() to vmap_nommu() when we know it's safe ? such as this
> > firmware case ?
>
> Well, I'd argue it's _not_ vmap(), so it doesn't really make sense to call it
> such. Perhaps some better name? Perhaps vcopy()?
How about vcoalesce()?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-06 4:25 userspace firmware loader, vmap, and nommu Mike Frysinger
2009-10-06 4:38 ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-06 4:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-12-21 16:44 ` [PATCH] nommu: implement vmap/vunmap with kmalloc Mike Frysinger
2010-01-07 6:49 ` [uClinux-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2010-01-16 15:57 ` David Howells
2010-03-09 16:11 ` [PATCH v2] NOMMU: " Mike Frysinger
2010-03-31 17:11 ` David Howells
2010-03-31 19:54 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-03-31 23:06 ` David Howells
2010-03-31 23:07 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-03-31 23:10 ` Mike Frysinger
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