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Message-Id: <1160427638.7752.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:00:38 +1000 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: Re: [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 06:57 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:12 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > OK, I've cleaned up and further improved this patchset, removed duplication > > while retaining legacy nopage handling, restored page_mkwrite to the ->fault > > path (due to lack of users upstream to attempt a conversion), converted the > > rest of the filesystems to use ->fault, restored MAP_POPULATE and population > > of remap_file_pages pages, replaced nopfn completely, and removed > > NOPAGE_REFAULT because that can be done easily with ->fault. > > What is the replacement ? I see ... so we now use PTR_ERR to return errors and NULL for refault... good for me but Andrew may want more... Ben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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