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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...>
To: <npiggin@...>
Cc: <a.p.zijlstra@...>, <akpm@...>, <mingo@...>, <linux-mm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <benh@...>, <jdike@...>, <hugh@...>, <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2007 - 8:09 am

> >   - it's a maintenance burden: I'll have to layer the m/ctime update

Yes, but that's a different aspect of msync(), not about the data
writeback issues that nonlinear mappings have.

So a solution that solves both these problems would probably be more
complex.


Fair enough.

Miklos
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[patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:49 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Dave Airlie, (Tue Feb 27, 12:36 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Andrew Morton, (Tue Feb 27, 1:32 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Nick Piggin, (Tue Feb 27, 4:50 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Dave Airlie, (Tue Feb 27, 2:26 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Feb 27, 2:54 am)
Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix, Dave Airlie, (Sun Mar 18, 7:13 pm)
[patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes ..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:50 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 2:51 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Wed Mar 7, 6:05 am)
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Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 3:08 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 4:19 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Mar 7, 4:27 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 4:59 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Mar 7, 5:22 am)
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[rfc][patch 7/6] mm: merge page_mkwrite, Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 6:30 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 6:21 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Mar 7, 6:24 am)
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Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 8:17 am)
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Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 9:08 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Mar 7, 9:19 am)
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[RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Mar 7, 12:58 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Mar 8, 7:21 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Nick Piggin, (Thu Mar 8, 7:58 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Mar 8, 8:09 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Mar 8, 7:37 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Mar 8, 7:48 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Mar 8, 8:11 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Nick Piggin, (Thu Mar 8, 8:19 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Mar 8, 8:25 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Mar 7, 2:00 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Mar 7, 2:12 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Mar 7, 2:24 pm)
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Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Miklos Szeredi, (Wed Mar 7, 5:25 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:18 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 5:26 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:38 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Miklos Szeredi, (Wed Mar 7, 5:28 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 4:35 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Bill Irwin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:29 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 5:39 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Bill Irwin, (Wed Mar 7, 6:09 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Mar 7, 4:53 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:28 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Bill Irwin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:44 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Blaisorblade, (Thu Mar 8, 8:39 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 5:49 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 6:02 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Blaisorblade, (Mon Mar 12, 7:01 pm)
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Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Blaisorblade, (Sat Mar 17, 8:17 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Sat Mar 17, 10:50 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Blaisorblade, (Mon Mar 19, 4:44 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Mar 20, 2:00 am)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Blaisorblade, (Wed Mar 21, 3:45 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fi..., Bill Irwin, (Mon Mar 19, 8:04 am)
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[patch 6/6] mm: remove legacy cruft, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:50 am)
[patch 5/6] mm: merge nopfn into fault, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:50 am)
Re: [patch 5/6] mm: merge nopfn into fault, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 1:13 am)
[patch 3/6] mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mapp..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:50 am)
Re: [patch 3/6] mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear ..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 2:36 am)
Re: [patch 3/6] mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear ..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 2:57 am)
Re: [patch 3/6] mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear ..., Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 3:08 am)
Re: [patch 3/6] mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear ..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 7, 3:25 am)
[patch 2/6] mm: simplify filemap_nopage, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:49 am)
[patch 1/6] mm: debug check for the fault vs invalidate race, Nick Piggin, (Wed Feb 21, 12:49 am)