From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: replace "memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE)" calls with "clear_page()"?
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:42:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070101084231.GA9863@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070101015932.GP13521@vanheusden.com>
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:59:32AM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > > regarding alignment that don't allow clear_page() to be used
> > > copy_page() in the memcpy() case), but it's going to need a lot of
>
> Maybe these optimalisations should be in the coding style docs?
>
For what purpose? CodingStyle is not about documenting usage constraints
for every minor part of the kernel. If someone intends to use an API,
it's up to them to figure out the semantics for doing so. Let's not
confuse common sense with style.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-01 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-29 6:16 replace "memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE)" calls with "clear_page()"? Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-30 20:49 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-12-30 22:08 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-30 22:40 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-03 6:23 ` dean gaudet
2006-12-30 22:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-30 23:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-31 18:39 ` Paul Mundt
2006-12-31 19:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-01 1:59 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-01-01 8:33 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-01 10:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-01 10:27 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-01 19:05 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-01 8:42 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2007-01-01 17:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-31 13:39 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-12-31 13:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-31 16:39 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-31 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-03 13:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
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