linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: extend prefault helpers to fault in more than PAGE

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Date:	Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:32:16 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: extend prefault helpers to fault in more than
 PAGE_SIZE

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:14:53 +0100
Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:

> I'll redo this patch by adding _multipage versions of these 2 functions
> for i915.

OK, but I hope "for i915" doesn't mean "private to"!  Put 'em in
pagemap.h, for maintenance reasons and because they are generic.

Making them inline is a bit sad, but that's OK for now - they have few
callsites.
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