[PATCH] include: asm-generic: page.h: Remove useless get_user_page and free_user_page

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Nov 19 08:18:43 PST 2015


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:25:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2015 03:40:25 Chen Gang wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/page.h b/include/asm-generic/page.h
> > index 37d1fe2..67cfb7d 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/page.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/page.h
> > @@ -24,9 +24,6 @@
> >  
> >  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> >  
> > -#define get_user_page(vaddr)           __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)
> > -#define free_user_page(page, addr)     free_page(addr)
> > -
> >  #define clear_page(page)       memset((page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
> >  #define copy_page(to,from)     memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
> >  
> > 
> 
> Looks good. I can take the asm-generic portion when you split it up, and
> I can also help you merge the remaining patches in case some of
> the arch maintainers fail to pick them up. I think all five of them
> are actively maintained though, so the patches should just go through
> the respective architecture trees.

Or we just ack the patch and have it go through one tree, which I think
is the most sensible.  I can't imagine that there would be any major
conflicts here, surely no one is constantly changing their asm/page.h ?

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