Re: [PATCH] XFS: Replace remaining memclear_highpage_flush() with zero_user_page().

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 18 2007 - 14:43:57 EST


On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> this appears to be the final occurrence of that deprecated call in
> the entire tree which suggests that, if you're not concerned about
> out-of-tree modules, that definition could also be removed from
> include/linux/highmem.h:
>
> static inline void __deprecated memclear_highpage_flush(struct page *page,
> unsigned int offset, unsigned int size)
> {
> zero_user_page(page, offset, size, KM_USER0);
> }

Andrew, please send this and the memclear_highpage_flush removal to Linus
for 2.6.22-rc. The warning is really highly annoying and utterly pointless.
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