Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range

From: Daniel Phillips
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 18:06:21 EST


On Friday 20 February 2004 09:01, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:37:26PM -0500, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Actually, I erred there in that invalidate_mmap_range should not export
> > the flag, because it never makes sense to pass in non-zero from a DFS.
>
> Doesn't vmtruncate() want to pass non-zero "all" in to
> invalidate_mmap_range() in order to maintain compatibility with existing
> Linux semantics?

That comes from inside. The DFS's truncate interface should just be
vmtruncate. If I missed something, please shout.

Regards,

Daniel

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