Subject: re: Adding a size parameter to stackgap_init()
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/18/2002 12:53:15
> hmmm. i think i agree. please move the "userlevel" handling
> part of sys_swapctl() into a support function. don't like the
> name above, perhaps call it swap_user()... (but be sure to post
> changes and get OK from some other UVM-type as well.)
I proposed the name 'sys_swapctl1' to follow a quite widespread
convention in the kernel. We already have sigpending1, exit1(),
uvm_km_free_poolpage1(), fork1(), and so on.
Why another naming scheme?
because that's what the other "helper" functions for sys_swactl()
are named like.