From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:39:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020311203947.GA735@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020311120818.A38@toy.ucw.cz>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:08:18PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Below is a vm cleanup that can be pulled from bk://bcrlbits.bk.net/vm-2.5 .
> > The bulk of the patch is moving the down/up_write on mmap_sem into do_mmap
> > and removing that from all the callers. The patch also includes a fix for
> > do_mmap which caused mapping of the last page in the address space to fail.
>
> Was not that a workaround for CPU bugs?
In generic code, I'd hope not.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-11 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-08 23:53 Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-09 2:15 ` Juan Quintela
2002-03-09 11:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-03-09 21:17 ` Juan Quintela
2002-03-11 12:08 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-11 19:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 20:39 ` Tom Rini [this message]
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