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

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07T09:35:31Z

* Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> wrote:

> * Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> >> After these patches, I don't think there is too much burden. The main
> >> thing left really is just the objrmap stuff, but that is just handled
> >> with a minimal 'dumb' algorithm that doesn't cost much.
>
> 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.
>
> Oracle would love it. You don't want to know how far back I've been
> asked to backport that.

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 ;-)

Ingo