From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:01:54 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] find_vma_prev rewrite Message-ID: <20020628180154.GS25360@holomorphy.com> References: <20020627160757.A13056@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020627160757.A13056@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/