Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

[David Chinner]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:24:40PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:05:11PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:22:24PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > > > Yup.  Even better, use clear_highpage().
> > > 
> > > For even more goodness, clearmem_highpage_flush() does exactly
> > > the right thing for partial page zeroing ;)
> > 
> > Note that there are tons of places in buffer.c that could use
> > clearmem_highpage_flush().  See the so far untested patch below:
> > 
> 
> You probably need s/memclear/clearmem/g..

Not needed - as usual, the code is right and the comments
are wrong. ;)

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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