From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 01:50:16 -0800 From: Bill Irwin Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) Message-ID: <20070307095016.GN18774@holomorphy.com> References: <20070221023656.6306.246.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070221023735.6306.83373.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070306225101.f393632c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070307070853.GB15877@wotan.suse.de> <20070307081948.GA9563@wotan.suse.de> <20070307082755.GA25733@elte.hu> <20070307085944.GA17433@wotan.suse.de> <20070307092252.GA6499@elte.hu> <20070307093208.GK18774@holomorphy.com> <20070307093518.GB8424@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070307093518.GB8424@elte.hu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Bill Irwin , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> ok. What do you think about the sys_remap_file_pages_prot() thing that >>> Paolo has done in a nicely split up form - does that complicate things >>> in any fundamental way? That is what is useful to UML. * Bill Irwin wrote: >> Oracle would love it. You don't want to know how far back I've been >> asked to backport that. On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:35:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > ok, cool! Then the first step would be for you to talk to Paolo and to > pick up the patches, review them, nurse it in -mm, etc. Suffering in > silence is just a pointless act of masochism, not an efficient > upstream-merge tactic ;-) It was intended for use in a debugging mode for the database, so given the general mood where fighting backouts was an issue, I was relatively loath to bring it up. With UML behind it I don't feel that's as much of a concern. -- wli -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org