Re: [BUG REPORT] [mm-hotplug, aio] aio ring_pages can't be offlined

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On 11/30/2012 06:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:29:30 +0800 Lin Feng <linfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> add a new library function which callers can use before (or after?)
>>> calling get_user_pages[_fast]().
>> Sorry, I'm not quite understand what "library function" function means..
>> Does it means a function aids get_user_pages() or totally wraps/replaces 
>> get_user_pages(), or none of above?
> 
> "library function" is terminology for a general facility which
> the core kernel makes available to other parts of the kernel. 
> get_user_pages() is a library function, as are the functions in lib/,
> etc.  "grep EXPORT_SYMBOL ./*/*.c"
hi Andrew,

Thanks for your explanation and sorry for my ignorant question :)
As Mel said Still I can't find a way to make every guy happy..

Thanks,
linfeng

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