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mempolicy: rename struct mempolicy 'policy' member to 'mode'
authorLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:13:12 +0000 (02:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:24 +0000 (08:58 -0700)
commit45c4745af381851b0406d8e4db99e62e265691c2
treed93f6f7b3d7eb3773aaa80444c56baff99e670d6
parentae4d8c16aa22775f5731677abb8a82f03cec877e
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>
Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
include/linux/mempolicy.h
mm/mempolicy.c