From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA18261 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:31:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:31:36 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: hugepage patches Message-Id: <20030201013136.312a946d.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030201095848.C789@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <20030131151501.7273a9bf.akpm@digeo.com> <20030131151858.6e9cc35e.akpm@digeo.com> <20030201095848.C789@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Oeser Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Ingo Oeser wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:18:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Also, don't mark hugepages as all PageReserved any more. That's preenting > > callers from doing proper refcounting. Any code which does a user pagetable > > walk and hits part of a hugepage will now handle it transparently. > > Heh, that's helping me a lot and makes get_one_user_page very > simple again (and simplify the follow_huge_* stuff even more). > > This could help futex slow-path and remove loads of code. > > Once this hugetlb stuff settles down a bit, I'll rewrite the > page-walking again to accomodate this. No API changes, just > internal rewrites. OK... > So please tell the linux-mm list, when it's finished and I'll have > sth. ready for -mm in the first week of March[1]. Well I'm thinking of renaming it to hugebugfs. It should be settled down shortly. -- 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/