linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

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Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:14:02 +1100
From:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:05:11PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:22:24PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > > Yup.  Even better, use clear_highpage().
> > 
> > For even more goodness, clearmem_highpage_flush() does exactly
> > the right thing for partial page zeroing ;)
> 
> Note that there are tons of places in buffer.c that could use
> clearmem_highpage_flush().  See the so far untested patch below:

Runs through XFSQA just fine. Looks good to me, Christoph.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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