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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	riel <riel@redhat.com>, Lennart Poettering <mztabzr@0pointer.de>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] mm: madvise(WILLNEED) for anonymous memory
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:23:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198164219.6821.36.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1198163908.6821.33.camel@twins>

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:18 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> +static int madvise_willneed_anon_pte(pte_t *ptep,
> +		unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg)
> +{
> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma = arg;
> +	struct page *page;
> +
> +	page = read_swap_cache_async(pte_to_swp_entry(*ptep), GFP_KERNEL,

Argh, with HIGHPTE this is done inside a kmap_atomic.

/me goes complicate the code with page pre-allocation..


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20 13:05 Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 14:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-12-20 14:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 14:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 15:18       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 15:23         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-12-20 15:26     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-12-20 16:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 17:11         ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-20 17:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 16:29   ` Lennart Poettering

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