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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:33:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061010143342.GA5580@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010121314.19693.75503.sendpatchset@linux.site>

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:21:32PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> This patchset is against 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 up to
> numa-add-zone_to_nid-function-swap_prefetch.patch (ie. no readahead stuff,
> which causes big rejects and would be much easier to fix in readahead
> patches than here). Other than this feature, the -mm specific stuff is
> pretty simple (mainly straightforward filesystem conversions).
> 
> Changes since last round:
> - trimmed the cc list, no big changes since last time.
> - fix the few buglets preventing it from actually booting
> - reinstate filemap_nopage and filemap_populate, because they're exported
>   symbols even though no longer used in the tree. Schedule for removal.

Just kill them and the whole ->populate methods.  We have a better API that
replaces them 100% with your patch, and they've never been a widespread
API.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-10 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-10 14:21 Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 14:21 ` [patch 1/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate check Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 14:21 ` [patch 2/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate race fix Nick Piggin
2006-10-11  4:38   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-11  5:39     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-11  6:00       ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-11  9:21         ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-11 16:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-11 16:57           ` SPAM: " Nick Piggin
2006-10-11 17:11             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-11 17:21               ` SPAM: " Nick Piggin
2006-10-11 17:38                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-12  3:33                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-12 15:37                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-12 15:40                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-11  5:13   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-11  5:50     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-11  6:10       ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-11  6:17       ` [patch 1/6] revert "generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero length iovec segments" Andrew Morton, Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <20061010231150.fb9e30f5.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-10-11  6:17         ` [patch 2/6] revert "generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write" Andrew Morton, Andrew Morton
     [not found]         ` <20061010231243.bc8b834c.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-10-11  6:17           ` [patch 3/6] generic_file_buffered_write() cleanup Andrew Morton, Andrew Morton
     [not found]           ` <20061010231339.a79c1fae.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-10-11  6:18             ` [patch 4/6] generic_file_buffered_write(): fix page prefaulting Andrew Morton, Andrew Morton
     [not found]             ` <20061010231424.db88931f.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-10-11  6:18               ` [patch 5/6] generic_file_buffered_write(): max_len cleanup Andrew Morton, Andrew Morton
     [not found]               ` <20061010231514.c1da7355.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-10-11  6:18                 ` [patch 6/6] fix pagecache write deadlocks Andrew Morton, Andrew Morton
2006-10-21  1:53       ` [patch 2/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate race fix Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 14:22 ` [patch 3/5] mm: fault handler to replace nopage and populate Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 14:22 ` [patch 4/5] mm: add vm_insert_pfn helpler Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 14:22 ` [patch 5/5] mm: merge nopfn with fault handler Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 14:26 ` [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-10-10 15:01   ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 16:09     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11  0:46       ` SPAM: " Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 15:07   ` Arjan van de Ven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-09 16:12 Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 20:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-09 21:00   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10  0:53     ` Nick Piggin

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