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| author | Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> | 2008-04-28 02:13:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-28 08:58:24 -0700 |
| commit | 45c4745af381851b0406d8e4db99e62e265691c2 (patch) | |
| tree | d93f6f7b3d7eb3773aaa80444c56baff99e670d6 /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | ae4d8c16aa22775f5731677abb8a82f03cec877e (diff) | |
| download | linux-45c4745af381851b0406d8e4db99e62e265691c2.tar.bz2 | |
mempolicy: rename struct mempolicy 'policy' member to 'mode'
The terms 'policy' and 'mode' are both used in various places to describe the
semantics of the value stored in the 'policy' member of struct mempolicy.
Furthermore, the term 'policy' is used to refer to that member, to the entire
struct mempolicy and to the more abstract concept of the tuple consisting of a
"mode" and an optional node or set of nodes. Recently, we have added "mode
flags" that are passed in the upper bits of the 'mode' [or sometimes,
'policy'] member of the numa APIs.
I'd like to resolve this confusion, which perhaps only exists in my mind, by
renaming the 'policy' member to 'mode' throughout, and fixing up the
Documentation. Man pages will be updated separately.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index 1c7dd21623d2..27b9507a3769 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -145,10 +145,6 @@ Components of Memory Policies structure, struct mempolicy. Details of this structure will be discussed in context, below, as required to explain the behavior. - Note: in some functions AND in the struct mempolicy itself, the mode - is called "policy". However, to avoid confusion with the policy tuple, - this document will continue to use the term "mode". - Linux memory policy supports the following 4 behavioral modes: Default Mode--MPOL_DEFAULT: The behavior specified by this mode is |