From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Adam Litke'" <agl@us.ibm.com>, "linux-mm" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC] hugetlb: Move hugetlb_get_unmapped_area
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:43:38 -0700
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Adam Litke wrote on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:32 AM
> I am trying to do some hugetlb interface cleanups which include
> separation of the hugetlb utility functions (mostly in mm/hugetlb.c)
> from the hugetlbfs interface to huge pages (fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c).
> 
> This patch simply moves hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() (which I'll argue is
> more of a utility function than an interface) to mm/hugetlb.c.  

To me it doesn't look like a clean up.  get_unmapped_area() is one of
file_operations method and it make sense with the current arrangement
that it stays together with .mmap method, which both live in
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c.

- Ken
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