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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:00:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050224000037.GC11473@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050223191254.GA5608@austin.ibm.com>

Olof Johansson wrote:
> How's this? I went with get_val_no_fault(), since it isn't really a
> get_user.*() any more (ptr being passed in), and no_paging is a little
> misleading (not all faults are due to paging).

How ironic: I deliberately didn't choose "no_fault" because that
function *does* take page faults.  It only disables paging operations! :)

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-24  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-22 19:06 [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:16   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:19     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:42       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 22:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:24           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 23:08           ` Greg KH
2005-02-23 11:24   ` David Howells
2005-02-22 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:07   ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19     ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 22:09       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19     ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-22 21:27       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:34       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 22:42         ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 23:20           ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 23:23             ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 11:39       ` David Howells
2005-02-23 16:22         ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 18:44           ` David Howells
2005-02-23 14:49       ` Joe Korty
2005-02-23 15:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 17:10           ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 17:37             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-23 18:22             ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:34               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 18:49                 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 19:12                   ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 22:00                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24  0:00                     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2005-02-23 18:37               ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 21:40     ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 11:42       ` David Howells

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