From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:11:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222283477.4425.55.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24051.1222282618@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:56 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason I shouldn't use truncate() in regular shmem.c if I
> > were to unify the two files?
>
> It would be nice to keep tiny-shmem.c, well, tiny for NOMMU systems that can't
> have swap and can't have virtual memory. Note that regular shmem does not now
> build on top of ramfs, so you'd have to port the ramfs internals to it.
As the original author of tiny-shmem.c, I will naturally try to bear
this in mind. The goal would be to build both a regular and a tiny
version from one C file so that they won't diverge again in the future.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 11:37 [patch] x86: some lock annotations for user copy paths Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-10 11:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 11:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 12:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 12:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 15:12 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 14:48 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-10 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 15:26 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-11 8:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-11 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-12 9:24 ` [PATCH] sysfs: fix deadlock Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 22:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-15 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-14 7:39 ` [lockdep] possible circular locking, between &mm->mmap_sem and &dev->ev_mutex Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 7:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-14 8:06 ` [patch] mm: fix locking, inotify_read's ev_mutex vs do_page_fault's mmap_sem Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 22:12 ` [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex Nick Piggin
2008-09-17 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-17 20:46 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-18 11:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 19:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-18 21:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-20 2:18 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-20 16:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-22 14:54 ` David Howells
2008-09-23 5:32 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-24 18:18 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 18:29 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-24 18:56 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 19:11 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-09-24 19:26 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 19:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-24 19:59 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 23:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-24 19:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-24 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-22 15:14 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-19 8:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 21:36 ` [lockdep] possible circular locking, between &mm->mmap_sem and &dev->ev_mutex Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 14:30 ` [patch] x86: some lock annotations for user copy paths Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 14:31 ` Andi Kleen
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