From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422696AbXCGJuj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:50:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422699AbXCGJuj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:50:39 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:11132 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422696AbXCGJuh (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:50:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 01:50:16 -0800 From: Bill Irwin To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Bill Irwin , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) Message-ID: <20070307095016.GN18774@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Irwin , Ingo Molnar , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt References: <20070221023656.6306.246.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070221023735.6306.83373.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070306225101.f393632c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070307070853.GB15877@wotan.suse.de> <20070307081948.GA9563@wotan.suse.de> <20070307082755.GA25733@elte.hu> <20070307085944.GA17433@wotan.suse.de> <20070307092252.GA6499@elte.hu> <20070307093208.GK18774@holomorphy.com> <20070307093518.GB8424@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070307093518.GB8424@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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