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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de,
	randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dgc@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:12:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070522151220.GA9541@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705180758450.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:11:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
> > the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
> 
> I'm not going to merge this one.

So if ->fault doesn't get in can be please at least get block_page_mkwrite
in to fix the shared mmap write allocation and unwritten extent + mmap
issues?  It can then later be converted to whatever version of ->fault
goes in.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-22 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18  7:37 akpm, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-18 15:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-19  1:38   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 15:12   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-23  1:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23  8:35       ` David Chinner
2007-05-23  9:35         ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23  2:57     ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 23:37   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24  1:48     ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24  2:06       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-24  2:24         ` Nick Piggin

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