linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/19 v2.1] avr32/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:11:45 +0200
From:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
To:	Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@...il.com>
Cc:	Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Mohd. Faris" <mohdfarisq2010@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19 v2.1] avr32/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to
 do_page_fault

Around Tue 12 Jun 2012 21:27:03 +0530 or thereabout, Kautuk Consul wrote:

Hello,

> When can I see this patch in linux-next ?
> 

Currently there are no AVR32 git tree, since I don't have a kernel.org
account. I hope to meet somebody with a signed key, but until I do, could you
run the patch by Andrew?

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@...il.com> wrote:
>>> Commit d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99
>>> (mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
>>> commit 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb
>>> (x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
>>>
>>> The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
>>> for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
>>>
>>> These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
>>> during OOM killer invocation.
>>>
>>> Port these changes to AVR32.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris <mohdfarisq2010@...il.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@...il.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>

-- 
mvh
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
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