[PATCH] ppc: Export empty_zero_page

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Wed Mar 26 09:26:57 EST 2008


Hi Ted,

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:54:54 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> So I screwed this one up.  Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....
> 
> I assume Stephen's already sent this to patch to you guys (I picked it
> up from the linux-next git tree), but just in case he didn't....

Yeah, I already sent it and paulus is probably going to put it in his
2.6.26 tree.

However, have you made any progress on Christoph's suggestion:

"The real fix is that ext4 shouldn't be using ZERO_PAGE().  Please use
the same zeroing helpers all the other filesystems and drivers use."

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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