From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758352AbZEET3u (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 15:29:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753030AbZEET3i (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 15:29:38 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41180 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751438AbZEET3h (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 15:29:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:24:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Johannes Weiner 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() Message-Id: <20090505122442.6271c7da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1241430874-12667-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> References: <20090501181449.GA8912@cmpxchg.org> <1241430874-12667-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner 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? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B3E6B003D for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 15:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:24:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte() Message-Id: <20090505122442.6271c7da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1241430874-12667-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> References: <20090501181449.GA8912@cmpxchg.org> <1241430874-12667-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Johannes Weiner 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 List-ID: On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner 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? -- 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: email@kvack.org