From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <461C8DC0.1060509@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:26:56 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: remap_file_pages support - lost messages? References: <200704091612.57964.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20070409104315.02653a7f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1176237622.18017.0.camel@lappy> In-Reply-To: <1176237622.18017.0.camel@lappy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton , Blaisorblade , linux-mm@kvack.org, Jeff Dike List-ID: Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 10:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:12:57 +0200 Blaisorblade wrote: >> >> >>>Andrew, last week I sent to you the patchset for remap_file_pages protection >>>support, against 2.6.21-rc5-mm3. I got no response at all on that, even if I >>>thought it would be merged in -mm. What happened? Should I resend it? >> >>I saw them, and hung onto them for a week in the hope that someone would >>get in and review them, but nobody did. >> >>So I suppose you should resend, please. Try cc'ing lkml as well - there >>seems to be plenty of surplus labour over there ;) > > > I intended to go over it in detail, I just haven't found the time > yet :-( Ditto. The fault handler / sigsegv code still seems a little bit unfortunate (if it can't be improved then maybe it can at least be ifdef'ed), however I hadn't seen the patchset since it had been using some weird pte encoding conventions. Now that it is using a more formal encoding and its own not present bit, that part of it looks much cleaner. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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