Re: [PATCH] shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Fri Dec 05 2008 - 17:22:05 EST


On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 13:18 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > I agree with where you're going (surrendering your empire to mine!
> > or perhaps you don't you see it quite that way?), but I think this
> > isn't quite the patch you meant to send: it shouldn't contain that
> >
> > > - &shmem_file_operations);
> > > + &shmem_file_operations);
> > > +
> > > +#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> > > + error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
> > > + if (error)
> > > + goto close_file;
> > > +#endif
> >
> > hunk in mm/shmem.c
>
> I'm staring at the source and I'm at a loss as to why not? SHMEM depends
> on MMU, so this only gets done when !SHMEM && !MMU, which makes it the
> same as the tiny-shmem.c code it's unifying, no?

Sorry for wasting your time puzzling over that, it was just me getting
confused with the ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area() bit which does vanish:
this part is fine.

Hugh

>
> > and it should be deleting mm/tiny-shmem.c?
>
> Not sure how that bit fell off, yes.
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