From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45409761.9000806@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:09:21 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: fault handler to replace nopage and populate References: <20061007105758.14024.70048.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061007105853.14024.95383.sendpatchset@linux.site> <21d7e9970610241431j38c59ec5rac17f780813e6f05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970610241431j38c59ec5rac17f780813e6f05@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Airlie Cc: Nick Piggin , Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel List-ID: Dave Airlie wrote: > On 10/7/06, Nick Piggin wrote: > >> Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that >> encodes the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear >> mappings. >> > > Hi Nick, > > what is the status of this patch? I'm just trying to line up a kernel > tree for the new DRM memory management code, which really would like > this... > > Dave. Hi Dave, Blocked by another kernel bug at the moment. I hope both fixes can make it into 2.6.20, but if that doesn't look like it will happen, then I might try reworking the patchset to break the ->fault change out by itself because there are several others who would like to use it as well. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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