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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: magnus.damm@gmail.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	hverkuil@xs4all.nl, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:24:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505122442.6271c7da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241430874-12667-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>

On Mon,  4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:

> A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space
> and an address from it to a pte.

umm, OK.

Is there actually some point to these three patches?  If so, what is it?

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: magnus.damm@gmail.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	hverkuil@xs4all.nl, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:24:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505122442.6271c7da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241430874-12667-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>

On Mon,  4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:

> A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space
> and an address from it to a pte.

umm, OK.

Is there actually some point to these three patches?  If so, what is it?

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-05 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28  9:01 [PATCH] videobuf-dma-contig: zero copy USERPTR support V2 Magnus Damm
2009-04-28  9:01 ` Magnus Damm
2009-05-01  3:26 ` Magnus Damm
2009-05-01  3:26   ` Magnus Damm
2009-05-01 18:14   ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-01 18:14     ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04  9:54     ` [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte() Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04  9:54       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-05 19:24       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-05-05 19:24         ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-05 20:38         ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-05 20:38           ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-05 21:05           ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-05 21:05             ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-05 21:21             ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-05 21:21               ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-08  8:51               ` Magnus Damm
2009-05-08  8:51                 ` Magnus Damm
2009-05-04  9:54     ` [patch 2/3] mm: use generic follow_pte() in follow_phys() Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04  9:54       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04 10:08       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04 10:08         ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04  9:54     ` [patch 3/3] mm: introduce follow_pfn() Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04  9:54       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04 11:08       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 11:08         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 13:13         ` [patch 3/3 v2] " Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04 13:13           ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-04 14:31           ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 14:31             ` Christoph Hellwig

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