Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2008 19:57:05 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03 of 11] invalidate_page outside PT lock |
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:39:43PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Would it be an idea to merge them into one, so the first patch > introduces the right conventions directly?
The only reason this isn't merged into one, is that this requires non obvious (not difficult though) to the core VM code. I wanted to keep an obviously safe approach for 2.6.26. The other conventions are only needed by XPMEM and XPMEM can't work without all other patches anyway.
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