From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752620AbZIVDK7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:10:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752492AbZIVDK7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:10:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]:45188 "EHLO mail-ew0-f211.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752312AbZIVDK6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:10:58 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 333 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:10:58 EDT Message-ID: <4AB83EB5.60307@vflare.org> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:34:21 +0530 From: Nitin Gupta Reply-To: ngupta@vflare.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg CC: Hugh Dickins , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel , linux-mm , linux-mm-cc , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed References: <1253227412-24342-1-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <1253260528.4959.13.camel@penberg-laptop> <1253266391.4959.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <4AB3A16B.90009@vflare.org> <4AB487FD.5060207@cs.helsinki.fi> <1253531550.5216.32.camel@penberg-laptop> <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/21/2009 05:31 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins > wrote: >> (Nitin, your patch division is quite wrong: you should present a patch >> in which your driver works, albeit poorly, without the notifier; then >> a patch in which the notifier is added at the swapfile.c end and your >> driver end, so we can see how they fit together.) > > Yes, please. Such standalone driver could go into drivers/staging for > 2.6.32 probably. > Ok, for now all I will remove all swap notifier bits from the patches so they reside completely in drivers/staging/. That should make it easier for GregKH to merge it. The problematic swap notifier part will be added later. Thanks to you and Hugh for looking into these patches. Nitin From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A8FC6B004D for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:05:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so719744eye.18 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB83EB5.60307@vflare.org> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:34:21 +0530 From: Nitin Gupta Reply-To: ngupta@vflare.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed References: <1253227412-24342-1-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <1253260528.4959.13.camel@penberg-laptop> <1253266391.4959.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <4AB3A16B.90009@vflare.org> <4AB487FD.5060207@cs.helsinki.fi> <1253531550.5216.32.camel@penberg-laptop> <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Hugh Dickins , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel , linux-mm , linux-mm-cc , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp List-ID: On 09/21/2009 05:31 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins > wrote: >> (Nitin, your patch division is quite wrong: you should present a patch >> in which your driver works, albeit poorly, without the notifier; then >> a patch in which the notifier is added at the swapfile.c end and your >> driver end, so we can see how they fit together.) > > Yes, please. Such standalone driver could go into drivers/staging for > 2.6.32 probably. > Ok, for now all I will remove all swap notifier bits from the patches so they reside completely in drivers/staging/. That should make it easier for GregKH to merge it. The problematic swap notifier part will be added later. Thanks to you and Hugh for looking into these patches. Nitin -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org