From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 0/3] a faster buffered write deadlock fix? Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:41:01 -0800 Message-ID: <20070209004101.3e4a88fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Filesystems , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:35584 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946221AbXBIIlF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:41:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:07:15 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin wrote: > So I have finally finished a first slightly-working draft of my new aops > op (perform_write) proposal. I would be interested to hear comments about > it. Most of my issues and concerns are in the patch headers themselves, > so reply to them. > > The patches are against my latest buffered-write-fix patchset. What happened with Linus's proposal to instantiate the page as pinned, non-uptodate, unlocked and in pagecache while we poke the user address?