Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:24:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rmap 18 i_mmap_nonlinear |
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On 29 Apr 2004, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 01:10, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > That's right, arm and parisc do handle them differently: currently > > arm ignores i_mmap (and I think rmk was wondering a few months ago > > whether that's actually correct, given that MAP_SHARED mappings > > which can never become writable go in there - and that surprise is > > itself a very good reason for combining them), and parisc... ah, > > what it does in Linus' tree at present is about the same for both, > > but there are some changes on the way. > > Actually, as I said before, parisc is reworking the cache flushing stuff
Yes, not forgotten, that's what I meant by saying some changes on the way.
> in our tree. As things currently stand we've altered our map allocation > so that we now treat i_mmap no differently from i_mmap_shared, so we'd
Ah, not quite so in what you last showed me, but no matter...
> be fine with merging them.
Great, thanks. No need for you to refresh me: if I do go ahead with merging them (not my current priority), it'll be obvious from whatever patch I show against -mm, what change you'd want to make to your tree.
Hugh
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