linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] EXT3: problem with page fault inside a transaction

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Message-Id: <20061012013702.fe0515ed.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:37:02 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@...ru>
Cc:	Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<devel@...nvz.org>, ext2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrey Savochkin <saw@...oft.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] EXT3: problem with page fault inside a transaction

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:53:56 +0400
Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@...ru> wrote:

> > With the stuff Nick and I are looking at, we won't take pagefaults inside
> > prepare_write()/commit_write() any more.
> I'sorry may be i've missed something, but how cant you prevent this?

Start here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/11/12
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