From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dgc@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:12:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070522151220.GA9541@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705180758450.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:11:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> >
> > Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
> > the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
>
> I'm not going to merge this one.
So if ->fault doesn't get in can be please at least get block_page_mkwrite
in to fix the shared mmap write allocation and unwritten extent + mmap
issues? It can then later be converted to whatever version of ->fault
goes in.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 7:37 [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) akpm, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-18 15:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-19 1:38 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-23 1:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 8:35 ` David Chinner
2007-05-23 9:35 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 2:57 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 23:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24 1:48 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 2:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24 2:24 ` Nick Piggin
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