Linus Torvalds wrote: > Quite frankly, I don't think nopfn() is a good interface. It's only usable > for one single thing, so trying to claim that it's a generic VM op is > really not valid. If (and that's a big if) we need this interface, we > should just do it inside mm/memory.c instead of playing games as if it was > generic. Hi Linus, As Robin mentioned I believe Carsten was also looking for this interface and I received an email from Bjorn Helgas after posting this stating that he was also looking for it, so there may be several users for it. I believe it was originally Christoph who suggested we took this approach to avoid playing tricks on do_no_page. However, if you have a suggestion for how to do it in a better way, I shall be happy to try and implement it that way instead, if you'll share the details. Cheers, Jes - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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