Re: Remove open coded implementations of memclear_highpage flush

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Apr 23 2007 - 22:25:44 EST


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:

> On 4/24/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are a series of open coded reimplementation of memclear_highpage_flush
> > all over the page cache code. Call memclear_highpage_flush in those
> > locations.
> > Consolidates code and eases maintenance.
>
> If I remember right, a very similar patchset was recently submitted
> that Andrew merged in -mm(?). It also renamed memclear_highpage_flush
> to something like zero_user_page (though I wonder how good a name that
> is considering it takes an offset and not the whole page) and
> deprecated the old name.

My latest tree from Andrew does not have any of this. URL of patch?

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