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SubjectRe: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 23:28 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > Hi Linus and Andrew,
> >
> > Please apply below patch which exports invalidate_mapping_pages() to
> > modules. It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and
> > not invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need
> > invalidate_mapping_pages() because of its range specification ability...
> >
> > It would be great if this could make it into 2.6.20!
>
> yet.. if there's not a single user it makes the kernel binary 100 to 150
> bytes bigger in memory......

Well I call it from two different places but the code is not in the kernel
(yet)... Also the way Andrew has added this to -mm it does not use the
extra space as you say because he added the export as per my patch but
then removed the export for invalidate_inode_pages() and turned that into
a static inline instead.

Best regards,

Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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