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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705152309180.5772@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 23:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
Nate Diller <nate.diller@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and
zero_user
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Well sure, if that's all Christoph is worried about, then it isn't
> really valid because in generic code we have to follow the architecture
> abstraction API -- there is no "non highmem platform" in generic code :)
But there is a default KM_USER0 that is used in many functions.
F.e.
filemap_copy_from_user *_iovec xip_truncate_page clear_user_highpage
clear_highpage copy_user_highpage copy_highpage
So explicitly mentioning KM_USER0 in every function call is not a
requirement.
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