linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch 0/3] a faster buffered write deadlock fix?

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Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:41:01 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 0/3] a faster buffered write deadlock fix?

On Thu,  8 Feb 2007 14:07:15 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:

> So I have finally finished a first slightly-working draft of my new aops
> op (perform_write) proposal. I would be interested to hear comments about
> it.  Most of my issues and concerns are in the patch headers themselves,
> so reply to them.
> 
> The patches are against my latest buffered-write-fix patchset.

What happened with Linus's proposal to instantiate the page as pinned,
non-uptodate, unlocked and in pagecache while we poke the user address?
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