linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:58:57 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modules.

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,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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