Re: [RFC 1/2] Hugetlb fault fixes and reorg

From: David Gibson
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 20:21:39 EST


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:30:53PM -0800, William Lee Irwin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:38:16PM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> > (Patch originally from David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
> > Initial Post: Tue. 25 Oct 2005
> > -static struct page *find_lock_huge_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> > - unsigned long idx)
> > +static struct page *find_or_alloc_huge_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> > + unsigned long idx)
> > {
> > struct page *page;
> > int err;
> > - struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
> > - unsigned long size;
>
> This patch is a combination of function renaming, variable
> initialization/assignment and return path/etc. oddities, plus some
> functional changes (did I catch them all?) which apparently took a bit
> of effort to get to after sifting through the rest of that.

Functional changes? There shouldn't be...

> Dump the parallel cleanups or split them into pure cleanup and pure
> functional patches. I don't mind the cleanups, I mind the mixing.

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