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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mark install_page static
On  7 Sep 04 at 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either.

How are modules supposed to implement vma's populate method
without having install_page available? And yes, there are
out of tree kernel modules which prefer fremap & populate & install_page
over creating several thousands of VMAs to get non-linear mappings.
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec

>
> --- 1.28/mm/fremap.c 2004-08-23 10:15:12 +02:00
> +++ edited/mm/fremap.c 2004-09-07 13:51:20 +02:00
> @@ -99,8 +99,6 @@
> spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> return err;
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(install_page);
> -
>

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