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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, 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 19:33:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420173334.GD21660@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420172205.GC21659@infradead.org>

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:22:05PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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!

Thank you

> 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.

Sure, if anyone insists ;)

I tend to agree. I would tend to do it in just 2 patches
(1 for implementation, 1 for conversion) to make administrative
overheads smaller -- the conversions are small and very well
contained. Is there a good reason to split further?

Nick

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 17:33 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
2006-04-20 17:33     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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