2003-09-19 07:16:26

by Stevie-O

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: follow_page gone?


It would appear that, starting with 2.4.19, follow_page -- a fairly friendly way
to get the struct page backing a virtual address (as in vmalloc virtual) -- has
been removed from mm.h and made static to mm/memory.c. LXR shows that this
function was present in 2.4.18; the Changelog doesn't seem to mention anything
about this (although I may have missed something, Changelog-2.4.19 is over
100KB). Is there a new way to do this?

Furthermore, is all of this stuff documented somewhere other than the various
comments in the kernel source?

--
- Stevie-O

Real Programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE