[Devel] Re: [RFC v14-rc][PATCH 17/23] Record 'struct file' object instead of the file name for VMAs

[Oren Laadan]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 17:20 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
>> What you suggest will reverse the order ... so while we expect to find
>> a vma, we'll find a file object. I'm wonder if it's worth changing the
>> format and logic for this.
> 
> It makes logical sense to me to do this.  You depend on the file to
> create the VMA.  It makes sense to see dependencies before the object
> that is doing the depending.
> 
> -- Dave
> 

Or: you look at the vma header to know that you depend on the file...
(not that I really care how logic reads)

Anyway, the down side that I was hoping to avoid on restart, is to need
to expect "either...or" values of 'struct cr_hdr'->type instead of a
single deterministic value. That's the extra burden that I was referring
to.

Oren.

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