From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: running get_user_pages() from kernel thread
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:52:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090616215200.GA19781@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906162152250.12770@sister.anvils>
[added Andrew on Cc]
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:57:30PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >
> > Did you have a particular reason not to pass in the faulting mm
> > instead?
>
> No good reason.
Okay.
> > As the swap token should only care about the faulting address space
> > leading to swap io and not about the running process anyway, we could
> > do it like below and remove all those pesky current->derefs in the
> > same go. What do you think?
>
> I think we'll have to claim joint authorship.
That's for sure, I just didn't want to plant it on you :)
> But I win by one checkpatch point, and a few minutes ;)
Checkpatch compatibility restored, now back to the time machine!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 18:05 running get_user_pages() from kernel thread Izik Eidus
2009-06-16 18:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-06-16 18:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-16 18:55 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-16 19:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-16 20:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-06-16 21:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-16 21:19 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-16 19:20 ` Izik Eidus
2009-06-16 20:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-16 21:25 ` Izik Eidus
2009-06-16 20:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-16 20:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-16 21:50 ` [patch 1/2] mm: make swap token dummies static inlines Johannes Weiner
2009-06-16 21:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-16 21:55 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-16 21:55 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-16 21:50 ` [patch 2/2] mm: remove task assumptions from swap token Johannes Weiner
2009-06-16 21:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-16 21:56 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-16 21:56 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-17 2:00 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-17 2:00 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-17 8:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-17 8:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-06-16 21:52 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2009-06-21 13:02 ` [PATCH] mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token Hugh Dickins
2009-06-22 0:32 ` Minchan Kim
2009-06-16 21:16 ` running get_user_pages() from kernel thread Rik van Riel
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