Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:47:55 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BUG REPORT] [mm-hotplug, aio] aio ring_pages can't be offlined |
| |
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:29:30 +0800 Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > add a new library function which callers can use before (or after?) > > calling get_user_pages[_fast](). > Sorry, I'm not quite understand what "library function" function means.. > Does it means a function aids get_user_pages() or totally wraps/replaces > get_user_pages(), or none of above?
"library function" is terminology for a general facility which the core kernel makes available to other parts of the kernel. get_user_pages() is a library function, as are the functions in lib/, etc. "grep EXPORT_SYMBOL ./*/*.c"
| |