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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] find_vma_prev rewrite
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:01:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020628180154.GS25360@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020627160757.A13056@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:07:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I've been sending patches like this for over 18 months now with
> no comments.  I'm sending it to Linus early next week.  It benefits
> ia64's fault handler path and is required for PA-RISC's fault handler.
> It works, it's tested.  I realise this puts it in a very different class
> from the kind of VM patches which are allowed in a stable kernel tree.

That's discouraging to hear... perhaps some other time to discuss it.


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:07:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> There's also a chunk after find_vma_prev which adds an implementation
> of find_extend_vma for machines with stacks which grow up.  I couldn't
> be bothered to split it out, since it won't affect any other architecture.

It should be there for correctness.

I say it should go in.


Cheers,
Bill
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-28 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-27 15:07 Matthew Wilcox
2002-06-27 20:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-06-28 18:01 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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