linux/Documentation/vm
Lee Schermerhorn 45c4745af3 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>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
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00-INDEX doc: move vm/00-INDEX to Documentation/vm 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
balance Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
hugetlbpage.txt Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txt 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
locking [PATCH] swap: swap_lock replace list+device 2005-09-05 00:05:42 -07:00
numa Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
numa_memory_policy.txt mempolicy: rename struct mempolicy 'policy' member to 'mode' 2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
overcommit-accounting Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
page_migration [PATCH] page migration: sys_move_pages(): support moving of individual pages 2006-06-23 07:42:53 -07:00
slabinfo.c slabinfo: fall back from /sys/kernel/slab to /sys/slab 2008-02-21 15:27:06 -08:00
slub.txt slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txt 2008-03-06 16:21:50 -08:00