linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] LBS: fix uninitialized swapper

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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:44:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] LBS: fix uninitialized swapper_space

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Probably better, yes.  In -mm Peter is doing an #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> bdi_init() on swapper_space.  Would make sense to do both together,
> perhaps move them to a swapper_space_init() in swap_state.c, saving
> his #ifdef too.  I suggest leave such cleanups until one or the
> other is mainlined.

Ok. I have updated the largeblock git tree with your patches and a new 
revision of the mmap patches. Still working on it. Fallback in the block 
layer is not yet working. I probably need to look at Nick's patches a bit.

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