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List:       linux-mm
Subject:    Re: [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes
From:       Linus Torvalds <torvalds () linux-foundation ! org>
Date:       2007-05-23 1:14:47
Message-ID: alpine.LFD.0.98.0705221814220.3890 () woody ! linux-foundation ! org
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On Tue, 22 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:11:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 18 May 2007, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
> > > the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
> > 
> > I'm not going to merge this one.
> 
> So if ->fault doesn't get in can be please at least get block_page_mkwrite
> in to fix the shared mmap write allocation and unwritten extent + mmap
> issues?  It can then later be converted to whatever version of ->fault
> goes in.

After a -rc2? 

I don't think so. Unless it's some new regression.

		Linus

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