Re: [PATCH v3] mm: add replace_page_cache_page() function

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:25:28 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:07:54PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > (resent with fixed CC list, sorry for the duplicate)
> > 
> > Thanks for the review.
> > 
> > Here's an updated patch.  Modifications since the last post:
> > 
> >  - don't pass gfp_mask (since it's only able to deal with GFP_KERNEL
> >    anyway)
> > 
> 
> I am not sure it's a good idea.
> Now if we need just GFP_KERNEL, we can't make sure it in future.
> Sometime we might need GFP_ATOMIC and friendd functions
> (ex, add_to_page_cache_lru,add_to_page_cache_locked) already have gfp_mask.
> It's a exported function so it's hard to modify it in future.
> 
> I want to keep it.
> Instead of removing it, we can change mem_cgroup_prepare_migration as
> getting gfp_mask.
> 
you're right.

Thanks,
-Kame

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