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

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:10 +0200
From:	Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] XFS:  Replace remaining memclear_highpage_flush() with zero_user_page().

Am Montag, 18. Juni 2007 20:43 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> 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>

FYI, this patch got attributed to Christoph in Linus' tree with commit 
700716c8468d95ec6d03566a4e4fb576c3223cbc..

Cheers,
  hp


> > ---
> >
> >   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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