Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:45:31 -0400 | Subject | Re: pipe/page fault oddness. | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > Are we still looking at these options ? I could look at implementing the > first option which will also enable us to free up one pte bit.
We definitely are. If you can test my patch (with the small follow-up fix), and do the necessary changes for ppc64, that would be good.
I looked quickly at the ppc64 side, and it didn't look too painful. Using pte_protnone() instead of pte_numa() should remove move lines than it adds there too..
Linus
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