From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SPAM: Re: [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:46:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061011004654.GB25430@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160496546.3000.315.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:09:06PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > \ What: vm_ops.nopage
> > -When: October 2008, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
> > +When: October 2007, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
> > Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
> > forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
> > maintain.
>
> but a year is a really long time; 6 months would be a lot more
> reasonable..
> (it's not as if most external modules will switch until it's really
> gone.. more notice isn't really going to help that at all; at least make
> the kernel printk once on the first use of this so that they notice!)
I agree with that. But the printk can't go in until all the in-tree
users are converted. I will get around to doing that once the
interface is firmer.
As for timeframe, I don't have any strong feelings, but 6 months might
only be 1 kernel release, and we may not have got around to putting the
printk in yet ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-11 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ 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
2006-10-10 15:01 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11 0:46 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-10-10 15:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
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