linux-kernel - RRe: [patch 6/6] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks

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Date:	Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:57:27 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: RRe: [patch 6/6] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:47:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > And we should really decouple it from preempt entirely, in case we
> > ever want to check for it some other way in the pagefault handler.
> 
> How about we make sure all kmap_atomic implementations behave properly 
> and make in_atomic true.

Hmm, but you may not be doing a copy*user within the kmap. And you may
want an atomic copy*user not within a kmap (maybe).

I think it really would be more logical to do it in a wrapper function
pagefault_disable() pagefault_enable()? ;)

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