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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup..
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623071848.GC21180@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906211331480.3240@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:42:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Just a heads up that I committed the patches that I sent out two months 
> ago to make the fault handling routines use the finer-grained fault flags 
> (FAULT_FLAG_xyzzy) rather than passing in a boolean for "write".

While you've got everyone's attention, may I just remind arch
maintainers to consider using pagefault_out_of_memory() rather
than unconditional kill current in the pagefault OOM case. See
x86.

Thanks,
Nick

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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup..
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623071848.GC21180@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
Message-ID: <20090623071848.fLK8a4KDzlDB-D7ClRKH_uu3w5NDWg74LcDcNuk2ap0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906211331480.3240@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:42:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Just a heads up that I committed the patches that I sent out two months 
> ago to make the fault handling routines use the finer-grained fault flags 
> (FAULT_FLAG_xyzzy) rather than passing in a boolean for "write".

While you've got everyone's attention, may I just remind arch
maintainers to consider using pagefault_out_of_memory() rather
than unconditional kill current in the pagefault OOM case. See
x86.

Thanks,
Nick

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-21 20:42 handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup Linus Torvalds
2009-06-21 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-22  2:20 ` David Miller
2009-06-22  2:20   ` David Miller
2009-06-22  8:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-22  8:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-22  9:26 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-06-22  9:26   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-06-22 14:22 ` David Howells
2009-06-22 14:22   ` David Howells
2009-06-22 14:58 ` James Bottomley
2009-06-22 14:58   ` James Bottomley
2009-06-22 15:49 ` Russell King
2009-06-22 15:49   ` Russell King
2009-06-23  7:18 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-06-23  7:18   ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-23 12:49 ` [PATCH] hugetlb: fault flags instead of write_access Hugh Dickins
2009-06-23 12:56   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-23 21:36   ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-29 12:29   ` Mel Gorman
2009-06-23 12:52 ` [PATCH] mm: don't rely on flags coincidence Hugh Dickins
2009-06-23 13:00   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-06-23 21:38   ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-03 23:35 ` handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-03 23:35   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-04 16:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-04 16:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-04 21:08     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-04 21:08       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-06  7:31       ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-06  7:31         ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 10:56         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-06 10:56           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-06 11:53           ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 11:53             ` Nick Piggin

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