> Hi Linus,
> someone played with MM again. Probably he noticed
> that two weeks ago I added call to __get_pages() into
> ncpfs mmap code and took it as good reason for removing
> this function from kernel public interface :-(
> This patch switches my code back to __get_free_page().
> Diff was generated on the top of 2.3.27-pre6.
> Thanks for applying this. I hope that MM code stabilizes
> soon.
please check out 2.3.27 - there is page_alloc() now. __get_pages() is now
officially gone and a page_alloc.c-internal function, the officially
exported APIs (and this is going to stay a stable interface) is
alloc_page() and alloc_pages(), which can allocate normal and highmem
pages as well. __get_free_pages() can only allocate normal pages. Note
that i noticed the ncpfs breakage and the fix is in 2.3.27. [that way it's
much cleaner and highmem-correct than doing __get_free_page() and a MAP_NR
hack] Sorry for the confusion.
-- mingo
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