linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)

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Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:46:08 +0100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes
	nonlinear)

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:17 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > > > NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and
> > > > no users have hit mainline yet.
> > > 
> > > Did benh agree with that?
> > 
> > I won't use NOPAGE_REFAULT, I use NOPFN_REFAULT and that has hit
> > mainline. I will switch to ->fault when I have time to adapt the code,
> > in the meantime, NOPFN_REFAULT should stay.
> 
> I think I removed not only NOFPN_REFAULT, but also nopfn itself, *and*
> adapted the code for you ;) it is in patch 5/6, sent a while ago. 

Ok, I need to look. I've been travelling, having meeting etc... for the
last couple of weeks and I'm taking a week off next week :-)

Ben.


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