linux-kernel - Re: Remove open coded implementations of memclear

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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:25:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: Remove open coded implementations of memclear_highpage flush

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:

> On 4/24/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> > There are a series of open coded reimplementation of memclear_highpage_flush
> > all over the page cache code. Call memclear_highpage_flush in those
> > locations.
> > Consolidates code and eases maintenance.
> 
> If I remember right, a very similar patchset was recently submitted
> that Andrew merged in -mm(?). It also renamed memclear_highpage_flush
> to something like zero_user_page (though I wonder how good a name that
> is considering it takes an offset and not the whole page) and
> deprecated the old name.

My latest tree from Andrew does not have any of this. URL of patch?
 
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