Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:36:03 +1100 | From | "Dave Airlie" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6] fault vs truncate/invalidate race fix |
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> > I've also got rid of the horrible populate API, and integrated nonlinear pages > properly with the page fault path. > > Downside is that this adds one more vector through which the buffered write > deadlock can occur. However this is just a very tiny one (pte being unmapped > for reclaim), compared to all the other ways that deadlock can occur (unmap, > reclaim, truncate, invalidate). I doubt it will be noticable. At any rate, it > is better than data corruption. > > I hope these can get merged (at least into -mm) soon.
Have these been put into mm? can I expect them in the next -mm so I can start merging up the drm memory manager code to my -mm tree..
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