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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:50:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > This patch was done after Linus requested it when I intended to split
> > madvice out of filemap.c.  We extend splitvma() in mmap.c to take
> > another argument that specifies whether to split above or below the
> > address given, and thus can use it in those function, cleaning them up
> > a lot and removing most of their code.
> > 
> 
> This description seems to have leaked from a different patch.
> 
> Your patch purely shuffles code about, yes?

No.  it makes madvise/mlock/mprotect use slit_vma (that involved from
splitvma).  There is no change in behaviour (verified by ltp testruns),
but the implementation is very different, and lots of code is gone.

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