From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:14:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) In-Reply-To: <20070522151220.GA9541@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <200705180737.l4I7b5aR010752@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20070522151220.GA9541@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dgc@sgi.com List-ID: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:11:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Fri, 18 May 2007, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > > > > > Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes > > > the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings. > > > > I'm not going to merge this one. > > So if ->fault doesn't get in can be please at least get block_page_mkwrite > in to fix the shared mmap write allocation and unwritten extent + mmap > issues? It can then later be converted to whatever version of ->fault > goes in. After a -rc2? I don't think so. Unless it's some new regression. Linus -- 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