Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965136AbVKQXr7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:47:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965131AbVKQXr7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:47:59 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:62144 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965136AbVKQXr6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:47:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:46:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20051117.154648.66150660.davem@davemloft.net> To: hugh@veritas.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, paulus@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 13 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:34:55 +0000 (GMT) > Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no > purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up. VM_SHM does absolutely nothing in 2.4.x as well, I'd recommend killing it off now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/