linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] XFS: Replace remaining memclear_highpage_flush() with zero_user

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:43:43 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] XFS:  Replace remaining memclear_highpage_flush() with zero_user_page().

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>   this appears to be the final occurrence of that deprecated call in
> the entire tree which suggests that, if you're not concerned about
> out-of-tree modules, that definition could also be removed from
> include/linux/highmem.h:
> 
> static inline void __deprecated memclear_highpage_flush(struct page *page,
>                         unsigned int offset, unsigned int size)
> {
>         zero_user_page(page, offset, size, KM_USER0);
> }

Andrew, please send this and the memclear_highpage_flush removal to Linus
for 2.6.22-rc.  The warning is really highly annoying and utterly pointless.
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