Re: [patch 3/6] arch_update_pgd call

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On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:15 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> plain text document attachment (003-mm-update-pgd.diff)
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In order to change the layout of the page tables after an mmap has
> crossed the adress space limit of the current page table layout a
> architecture hook in get_unmapped_area is needed. The arguments
> are the address of the new mapping and the length of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not at all fan of the hook there and it's name...

Any reason why you can't do that in your arch gua ?

If not, then why can't you call it something nicer, like
arch_rebalance_pgtables() ?

Ben.


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