From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [RFC] On paging of kernel VM. Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 02:28:53 +0200 References: <2653.1031563253@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <2653.1031563253@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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? -- Daniel -- 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/