From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] x86: implement pte_special From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <20080529122602.062780000@nick.local0.net> References: <20080529122050.823438000@nick.local0.net> <20080529122602.062780000@nick.local0.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:35:40 +0200 Message-Id: <1212788140.19205.76.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: npiggin@suse.de Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, shaggy@austin.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org List-ID: On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 22:20 +1000, npiggin@suse.de wrote: > plain text document attachment (x86-implement-pte_special.patch) > Implement the pte_special bit for x86. This is required to support lockless > get_user_pages, because we need to know whether or not we can refcount a > particular page given only its pte (and no vma). > > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin > Cc: shaggy@austin.ibm.com > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org > Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org > Cc: apw@shadowen.org Full series: Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra -- 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: email@kvack.org