From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch] mm: dirty page tracking race fix Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:12:17 +1000 References: <20080818053821.GA3011@wotan.suse.de> <200808181803.57730.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1219046833.10800.270.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1219046833.10800.270.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808181812.17595.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Monday 18 August 2008 18:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:03 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Monday 18 August 2008 17:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 07:38 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and > > > > try_to_unmap. > > > > > > s/synch/sync/ ? > > > > > > we use sync all over the kernel to mean synchonous, so why are you > > > inventing a new shorthand? > > > > Mmm, we also use synch all over the kernel to mean synchronous, > > including in mm/, so I'm not inventing a new shorthand. sync I > > see is more common, but it's not something anybody would get > > confused about is it? > > I hadn't noticed before, and my grep skillz seem to have left me in the > cold > > git grep "\" mm/* | wc -l > 0 "asynch" ;) 1 hit! So *technically* I'm wrong... > And you're right, its not something one can get confused about. So lets > just keep it unless someone else objects ;-) Andrew feel free to edit the patch if/when you pick it up :P -- 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