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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:23:01 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Export get_user_pages_fast
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Andrew Morton wrote:
>> o other arch 
>> would define CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST.
>>
>>     
>
> That's presently true in Linus mainline.  The powerpc implementation is
> in -mm, but apprarently needs a bit more work.

Wouldn't a generic get_user_pages_fast() implementation which calls 
get_user_pages_slow() if the arch hadn't implemented the former reduce a 
lot of #ifdefs in call sites?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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