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Message-ID: <45375971.8080707@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:54:41 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
CC:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] mm: arch do_page_fault() vs in_atomic()

Hi Peter,
This patchset looks pretty nice to me.

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>

One minor nit:

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> In light of the recent pagefault and filemap_copy_from_user work I've
> gone through all the arch pagefault handlers to make sure the 
> inc_preempt_count() 'feature' works as expected.
> 
> Several sections of code (including the new filemap_copy_from_user) rely
> on the fact that faults do not take locks under increased preempt count.
> 
> arch/x86_64 - good
> arch/powerpc - good
> arch/cris - fixed
> arch/i386 - good
> arch/parisc - fixed
> arch/sh - good
> arch/sparc - good
> arch/s390 - good
> arch/m68k - fixed
> arch/ppc - good
> arch/alpha - fixed
> arch/mips - good
> arch/sparc64 - good
> arch/ia64 - good
> arch/arm - fixed
> arch/um - NA

um does have a fault handler (in kernel/trap.c), but it gets the
in_atomic check correct.

Thanks for doing this.

Nick

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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