Re: [patch 20/20] Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Thu Apr 19 2007 - 16:13:35 EST


On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:44:57PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > I think adding a flags field and an allocate flag to my callback
> > struct would be sufficient here.
> >
>
> Yes, probably.
>
> What about something that wants to shatter superpages?

Haven't thought a huge amount about that. Perhaps it's best done with
the level 3 callback?

> Don't know that that's a huge concern. The typedef namespace (*_t) is
> pretty empty, and its not like we're talking about something that's
> visible outside the kernel. And the syntax is *really* ugly.

Don't really care about this much.

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