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

Nick Piggin
2007-03-07T09:11:35Z

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:59:44AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Apart from a handful of trivial if (pte_file()) cases throughout mm/,
> our maintainance burden basically now amounts to the following patch.
> Even the rmap.c change looks bigger than it is because I split out
> the nonlinear unmapping code from try_to_unmap_file. Not too bad, eh? :)

Oh, there is a bit more nonlinear mmap list manipulation I'd forgotten
about too... makes things a little bit worse, but not too much.