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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hugh@veritas.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, paulus@samba.org,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, wli@holomorphy.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:46:48 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117.154648.66150660.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511171932440.4563@goblin.wat.veritas.com>

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:34:55 +0000 (GMT)

> Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
> purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.

VM_SHM does absolutely nothing in 2.4.x as well, I'd recommend
killing it off now.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 19:28 [PATCH 00/11] unpaged: PageReserved VM fixups Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:29 ` [PATCH 01/11] unpaged: get_user_pages VM_RESERVED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:29   ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:30 ` [PATCH 02/11] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:41   ` Dave Jones
2005-11-17 20:46     ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-11-17 20:51       ` Dave Jones
2005-11-17 23:58         ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18  7:12           ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-11-18  7:59             ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 20:59       ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-11-17 23:36   ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:31 ` [PATCH 03/11] unpaged: sound nopage get_page Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:41   ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:32 ` [PATCH 04/11] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:43   ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 20:15     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-19 20:55       ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-11-19 21:41         ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 21:58           ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-11-17 19:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 20:59   ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-11-17 23:46   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-11-17 19:36 ` [PATCH 06/11] unpaged: VM_NONLINEAR VM_RESERVED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:37 ` [PATCH 07/11] unpaged: COW on VM_UNPAGED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:52   ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18  5:46     ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-18  6:45       ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18  7:27         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18  7:46           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-18  8:04           ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18  8:12             ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18  8:02         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18  8:08           ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18  8:13             ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18  8:36               ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18  9:33                 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18 21:08           ` Dave Jones
2005-11-18 19:12     ` Alan Cox
2005-11-17 19:38 ` [PATCH 08/11] unpaged: anon in VM_UNPAGED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:38 ` [PATCH 09/11] unpaged: ZERO_PAGE " Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 21:25   ` Ingo Oeser
2005-11-18 19:58     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:39 ` [PATCH 10/11] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_page Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:40 ` [PATCH 11/11] unpaged: copy_page_range vma Hugh Dickins

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