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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-04-28 02:12:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:18 -0700
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mm: remove nopage
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in comments). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking3
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 448729fcaeb1..599fe55bf297 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -128,15 +128,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---------------------------
-What: vm_ops.nopage
-When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
-Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
- forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
- maintain.
-Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment
When: October 2008
Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 42d4b30b1045..c2992bc54f2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -511,7 +511,6 @@ prototypes:
void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*);
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *);
- struct page *(*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct*, unsigned long, int *);
int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *);
locking rules:
@@ -519,7 +518,6 @@ locking rules:
open: no yes
close: no yes
fault: no yes
-nopage: no yes
page_mkwrite: no yes no
->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is
@@ -537,4 +535,3 @@ NULL.
ipc/shm.c::shm_delete() - may need BKL.
->read() and ->write() in many drivers are (probably) missing BKL.
-drivers/sgi/char/graphics.c::sgi_graphics_nopage() - may need BKL.