From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so955742uge for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:36:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <21d7e9970702262036h3575229ex3bf3cd4474a57068@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:36:03 +1100 From: "Dave Airlie" Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix In-Reply-To: <20070221023656.6306.246.sendpatchset@linux.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070221023656.6306.246.sendpatchset@linux.site> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: > > I've also got rid of the horrible populate API, and integrated nonlinear pages > properly with the page fault path. > > Downside is that this adds one more vector through which the buffered write > deadlock can occur. However this is just a very tiny one (pte being unmapped > for reclaim), compared to all the other ways that deadlock can occur (unmap, > reclaim, truncate, invalidate). I doubt it will be noticable. At any rate, it > is better than data corruption. > > I hope these can get merged (at least into -mm) soon. Have these been put into mm? can I expect them in the next -mm so I can start merging up the drm memory manager code to my -mm tree.. Dave. -- 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