Re: [PATCH 6/13] maps: Move the page walker code to lib/

Matt Mackall
2007-04-04T05:21:29Z

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:51:37PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >Move the page walker code to lib/
> >
> >This lets it get shared outside of proc/ and linked in only when
> >needed.
>
> I think it would be better in mm/.

I originally was looking at putting it in mm/memory.c and possibly
converting some users there. But I decided it ought to be
conditionally linked until it had some core users and I wasn't quite
ready to tackle the tricky mm/ bits.

> So would clear_refs_pte_range, and clear_refs_write (in a more
> generic form), IMO.
>
> Sweet patchset, though.

Thanks.

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