On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:39 -0600, Mark Rustad wrote:
> This patch makes the function make_huge_pte non-static, so it can be used
> by drivers that want to mmap huge pages. Consequently, a prototype for the
> function is added to hugetlb.h. Since I was looking here, I noticed some
> coding style problems in the function and fix them with this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <[email protected]>
Call me crazy, but I cringe when I think of any old driver directly
mucking with huge_ptes. Forgive me if I am missing something, but why
can't you just call do_mmap with a hugetlbfs file like everyone else?
Otherwise, the CodingStyle cleanups look alright.
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Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center
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