Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)

Bill Irwin
2007-03-07T09:50:39Z

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> ok. What do you think about the sys_remap_file_pages_prot() thing that
>>> Paolo has done in a nicely split up form - does that complicate things
>>> in any fundamental way? That is what is useful to UML.

* Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Oracle would love it. You don't want to know how far back I've been
>> asked to backport that.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:35:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> ok, cool! Then the first step would be for you to talk to Paolo and to
> pick up the patches, review them, nurse it in -mm, etc. Suffering in
> silence is just a pointless act of masochism, not an efficient
> upstream-merge tactic ;-)

It was intended for use in a debugging mode for the database, so given
the general mood where fighting backouts was an issue, I was relatively
loath to bring it up. With UML behind it I don't feel that's as much of
a concern.

-- wli