From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Really start using the page walking API
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:33:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE4BB87.8070708@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021124233449.F5263@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de
Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> here come some improvements of the page walking API code.
>
> First: make_pages_present() would do an infinite recursion, if
> used in find_extend_vma(). I fixed this. Might as well have
> caused the ntp crash, that has been observed.
> So these make_pages_present parts are really important.
>
> I also did the promised rewrite of make_pages_present() and its
> users.
>
> MM-Gurus: Please double check, that I always provide the right vma.
>
> I also did two sample implementations (Kai and Doug, this is why
> you are CC'ed) of the scatter list walking and removed ~100
> lines of code while doing it.
<snip/>
Ingo,
I see that Andrew has put this patch in 2.5.49-mm2 and seems
to be asking for testers. So I will try and test sg's usage.
[It is a while since I built in sg (and other drivers) but
working modules has been very frustrating since 2.5.48 ...]
Doug Gilbert
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-27 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-24 22:34 [PATCH] Really start using the page walking API Ingo Oeser
2002-11-25 7:37 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-11-25 13:10 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-11-26 8:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-27 12:33 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
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