On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:33:45 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:46:12 +0530
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This patch moves the hugetlbfs region tracking function to
> > common code. We will be using this in later patches in the
> > series.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +struct file_region {
> > + struct list_head link;
> > + long from;
> > + long to;
> > +};
>
> Both Andrea Righi and John Stultz are working on (more sophisticated)
> versions of file region tracking code. And we already have a (poor)
> implementation in fs/locks.c.
>
> That's four versions of the same thing floating around the place. This
> is nutty.
We should be able to remove region.c once other alternatives are in
upstream. I will also look at the alternatives and see if it would need
any change to make it usable for this work.
Thanks,
-aneesh
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