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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] On paging of kernel VM.
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 02:28:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17oYth-0006wD-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2653.1031563253@redhat.com>

On Monday 09 September 2002 11:20, David Woodhouse wrote:
> But as I said, this means screwing with every fault handler. It doesn't 
> have to affect the fast path -- we can go looking for these vmas only in 
> the case where we've already tried looking for the appropriate pte in 
> init_mm and haven't found it. But it's still an intrusive change that would 
> need to be done on every architecture.

Why can't you go per-architecture and fall back to the slow way of doing it
for architectures that don't have the new functionality yet?

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Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-09  9:20 David Woodhouse
2002-09-09 11:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-09-09 11:24 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-10  0:28 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-09-10  6:08 ` David Woodhouse

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