From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: remap_vmalloc_range
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:22:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420172205.GC21659@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060228202212.14172.59536.sendpatchset@linux.site>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Add a remap_vmalloc_range and get rid of as many remap_pfn_range and
> vm_insert_page loops as possible.
>
> remap_vmalloc_range can do a whole lot of nice range checking even
> if the caller gets it wrong (which it looks like one or two do).
This looks very nice, thanks! Although it might be better to split it
into one patch to introduce remap_vmalloc_range and various patches to
switch over one susbsyetm for merging purposes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 17:06 [patch 0/5] mm: improve remapping of vmalloc regions Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 1/5] mm: remap_vmalloc_range Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-04-20 17:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 18:09 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 2/5] mm: deprecate vmalloc_to_pfn Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-20 17:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 3/5] mm: remove rvmalloc Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:06 ` [patch 4/5] mm: extra remap_vmalloc_range check Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:07 ` [patch 5/5] drivers: leave vm_flags alone Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 17:27 ` [patch 6/5] mm: find_vm_area locking fixes Nick Piggin
2006-04-20 18:14 ` [patch][rfc] improve remap_vmalloc_range callers' return values Nick Piggin
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2006-04-21 6:43 [patch 0/5] mm: improve remapping of vmalloc regions Nick Piggin
2006-04-21 6:43 ` [patch 1/5] mm: remap_vmalloc_range Nick Piggin
2006-04-21 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-21 7:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-21 7:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-21 8:06 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-21 7:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-21 7:41 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-21 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
2006-04-21 8:02 ` Andrew Morton
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