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Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:20:26PM -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> >> please do as you like.
>> >
>> > So it should be something like below I think...
>> 
>> Looks ok this version to me. So, if you fix other developers pointed
>> issue, I'll ack this.
>> 
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric, so mm/ would be fine or I still should move it to kernel/
> instead? I've addressed other issues I hope.

The world won't fall apart if the code lands in mm.  I have a strong
preference for kernel/.  I just don't see anything at all memory
management like about that code.  Even the fact that you are
comparing pointers is an implementation detail.

Eric