Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch

Gerrit Huizenga (gh@us.ibm.com)
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:33:24 -0700


In message <1035318239.329.141.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>, > : Alan C
ox writes:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:03, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
> > > Can we delete the specialty syscalls now?
> >
> > I was lead to believe that Linus designed them, so he may be emotionally attatched
> > to them, but I think there would be few others that would cry over the loss ...
>
> You mean like the wonderfully pointless sys_readahead. The sooner these
> calls go the better.

No, the other icky syscalls - the {alloc,free}_hugepages.

gerrit
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