block_page_mkwrite? (Re: fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23))
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:54:57AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: The fault-vs-invalidate race fix. I have belatedly learned that these need more work, so their state is uncertain. The more work may turn out being too much for you (although it is nothing exactly tricky that would introduce subtle bugs, it is a fair amont of churn). OK, so does that mean we can finally get the block_page_mkwrite patches merged? i.e.: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=117426058311032w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=11742607036w=2 I've got up-to-date versions of them ready to go and they've been consistently tested thanks to the XFSQA test I wrote for the bug that it fixes. I've been holding them out-of-tree for months now because -fault was supposed to supercede this interface. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: block_page_mkwrite? (Re: fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23))
David Chinner wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:54:57AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: The fault-vs-invalidate race fix. I have belatedly learned that these need more work, so their state is uncertain. The more work may turn out being too much for you (although it is nothing exactly tricky that would introduce subtle bugs, it is a fair amont of churn). OK, so does that mean we can finally get the block_page_mkwrite patches merged? i.e.: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=117426058311032w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=11742607036w=2 I've got up-to-date versions of them ready to go and they've been consistently tested thanks to the XFSQA test I wrote for the bug that it fixes. I've been holding them out-of-tree for months now because -fault was supposed to supercede this interface. Yeah, as I've said, don't hold them back because of me. They are relatively simple enough that I don't see why they couldn't be merged in this window. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
