From: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas@tungstengraphics.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Replace nopage() / nopfn() with fault()
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:47:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A77565.3020503@tungstengraphics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070112021421.GA28341@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:02:08PM +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote:
>
>
>>Nick,
>>
>>We're working to slowly get the new DRM memory manager into the
>>mainstream kernel.
>>This means we have a need for the page fault handler patch you wrote
>>some time ago.
>>I guess we could take the no_pfn() route, but that would need a check
>>for racing
>>unmap_mapping_range(), and other problems may arise.
>>
>>What is the current status and plans for inclusion of the fault() code?
>>
>>
>
>Hi Thomas,
>
>fault should have gone in already, but the ordering of my patchset was
>a little bit unfortunate :P
>
>I will submit them to Andrew later today.
>
>Nick
>
>
>
Thanks, Nick.
/Thomas.
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2007-01-09 15:02 Replace nopage() / nopfn() with fault() Thomas Hellström
2007-01-12 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12 11:47 ` Thomas Hellström [this message]
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