From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46957BE1.1010104@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:54:57 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23) References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch > mm-merge-populate-and-nopage-into-fault-fixes-nonlinear.patch > mm-merge-nopfn-into-fault.patch > convert-hugetlbfs-to-use-vm_ops-fault.patch > mm-remove-legacy-cruft.patch > mm-debug-check-for-the-fault-vs-invalidate-race.patch > mm-fix-clear_page_dirty_for_io-vs-fault-race.patch > invalidate_mapping_pages-add-cond_resched.patch > ocfs2-release-page-lock-before-calling-page_mkwrite.patch > document-page_mkwrite-locking.patch > > The fault-vs-invalidate race fix. I have belatedly learned that these need > more work, so their state is uncertain. The more work may turn out being too much for you (although it is nothing exactly tricky that would introduce subtle bugs, it is a fair amont of churn). However, in that case we can still merge these two: mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch mm-fix-clear_page_dirty_for_io-vs-fault-race.patch Which fix real bugs that need fixing (and will at least help to get some of my patches off your hands). -- 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