From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:58:08 -0600 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.66-mm2] Fix page_convert_anon locking issues Message-ID: <116640000.1049327888@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030402155220.651a1005.akpm@digeo.com> References: <8910000.1049303582@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030402132939.647c74a6.akpm@digeo.com> <80300000.1049320593@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030402150903.21765844.akpm@digeo.com> <102170000.1049325787@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030402153845.0770ef54.akpm@digeo.com> <110950000.1049326945@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030402155220.651a1005.akpm@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 15:52:20 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > hmmmm. It also probably needs both compiler barriers and memory barriers. > > It does give me creepy feelings. I worry that because nobody uses > remap_file_pages() yet, we will hit 2.6.25 before discovering that we have > fundamental VM locking problems which affect $major$ applications. It's looking more and more like we should use your other suggestion. It's definitely simpler if we can make it failsafe. I'll code it up tomorrow. Dave ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org