Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] powerpc: unmap_vm_area becomesunmap_kernel_range

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue May 15 2007 - 23:49:41 EST


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:45 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch renames unmap_vm_area to unmap_kernel_range and make
> it take an explicit range instead of a vm_area struct. This makes
> it more versatile for code that wants to play with kernel page
> tables outside of the standard vmalloc area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

BTW, sorry for the incorrect title, it's not powerpc specific really
(though I want to use the new function from powerpc code)

Ben.


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