Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:58:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules. |
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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,
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