From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:12:20 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) Message-ID: <20070522151220.GA9541@infradead.org> References: <200705180737.l4I7b5aR010752@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dgc@sgi.com List-ID: 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. -- 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