From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx128.postini.com [74.125.245.128]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 726256B0006 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:01:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 9so5846645iec.32 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:01:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1356050997-2688-1-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <1356050997-2688-5-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <20130311160322.830cc6b670fd24faa8366413@linux-foundation.org> <20130312002429.GA24360@google.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:01:22 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] mm: use mm_populate() for blocking remap_file_pages() From: Michel Lespinasse Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hillf Danton Cc: Andrew Morton , Tommi Rantala , Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar , Al Viro , Hugh Dickins , Jorn_Engel , Rik van Riel , Linux-MM , LKML On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Hillf Danton wrote: > Is it still necessary to populate mm if bail out due > to a linear mapping encountered? Yes. mmap_region() doesn't do it on its own, and we want the emulated linear case to behave similarly to the true nonlinear case. -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- 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