From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:55:56 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Message-ID: <20080209075556.63062452@bree.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20080208234302.GH26564@sgi.com> <20080208155641.2258ad2c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080209012446.GB7051@v2.random> <20080209015659.GC7051@v2.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Roland Dreier , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, izike@qumranet.com, steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Robin Holt , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Andrew Morton , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 18:16:16 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > The VM shouldn't break if try_to_unmap doesn't actually make the page > > freeable for whatever reason. Permanent pins shouldn't happen anyway, > > VM is livelocking if too many page are pinned that way right now. > Rik has a patchset under development that addresses issues like this PG_mlock is on the way and can easily be reused for this, too. -- All rights reversed. -- 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