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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] splice: Disable vmsplice on nommu.
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:10:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9949.1189505419@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070911093510.GA15405@kernel.dk>

Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> It's a bit of a sledge hammer... Since get_user_pages() appears to work
> on nummu, we can just disable the vmsplice-to-userspace bits and leave
> the (working) vmsplice-from-userspace in place.

That sounds about right.  I don't think you can do the latter without an MMU,
but I may be wrong about what it does.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-11  8:23 [PATCH -mm] splice: Disable vmsplice on nommu Paul Mundt
2007-09-11  9:35 ` Jens Axboe
2007-09-11 10:10   ` David Howells [this message]
2007-09-11 11:25     ` Jens Axboe
2007-09-11 16:57       ` David Howells

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