From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:11:36 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH -v8 3/4] Enable the MS_ASYNC functionality in sys_msync() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <12010440803930-git-send-email-salikhmetov@gmail.com> <1201044083504-git-send-email-salikhmetov@gmail.com> <1201110066.6341.65.camel@lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, salikhmetov@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, jakob@unthought.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu, riel@redhat.com, ksm@42.dk, staubach@redhat.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, protasnb@gmail.com, r.e.wolff@bitwizard.nl, hidave.darkstar@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org List-ID: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > But I still think this approach should work. Untested, might eat your > children, so please don't apply to any kernel. Yes, something like that should work. The important part is to not do the "TestClearPageDirty()" separately, the rest of it can be done well enough. 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