Re: [patch 1/5] mm: remap_vmalloc_range

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Add a remap_vmalloc_range and get rid of as many remap_pfn_range and
> vm_insert_page loops as possible.
> 
> remap_vmalloc_range can do a whole lot of nice range checking even
> if the caller gets it wrong (which it looks like one or two do).

This looks very nice, thanks!  Although it might be better to split it
into one patch to introduce remap_vmalloc_range and various patches to
switch over one susbsyetm for merging purposes.

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