From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Michal Sabala <lkml@saahbs.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:22:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061219162208.f96e2fef.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1166573863.5768.10.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:17:43 -0500
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> > (We were supposed to stop doing that about four years ago - change it so
> > that all a_ops must implement ->releasepage, but nobody got around to it).
>
> Would you still be interested in seeing this done?
Sure, when things calm down. It's just a cleanup.
There are various places where we got lazy and did this. ->set_page_dirty,
->page_mkwrite, many others. With varying degrees of consequential ugliness.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-20 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-15 2:30 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps Michal Sabala
2006-12-15 16:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-15 17:50 ` Michal Sabala
2006-12-15 19:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-15 21:06 ` Michal Sabala
2006-12-15 21:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-15 21:43 ` Michal Sabala
2006-12-15 21:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-15 22:05 ` Michal Sabala
2006-12-19 22:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-19 23:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-20 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-20 0:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-20 0:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-20 1:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-08 14:48 ` [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() Peter Zijlstra
2006-12-20 14:51 ` 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps Michal Sabala
2006-12-15 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-15 21:35 ` Michal Sabala
2006-12-15 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-16 12:59 ` Christian Kuhn
2006-12-16 18:45 ` Christian Kuhn
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