From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946227AbXBIIlH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:41:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946190AbXBIIlH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:41:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:35584 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946221AbXBIIlF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:41:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:41:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Filesystems , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 0/3] a faster buffered write deadlock fix? Message-Id: <20070209004101.3e4a88fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> References: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:07:15 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin wrote: > So I have finally finished a first slightly-working draft of my new aops > op (perform_write) proposal. I would be interested to hear comments about > it. Most of my issues and concerns are in the patch headers themselves, > so reply to them. > > The patches are against my latest buffered-write-fix patchset. What happened with Linus's proposal to instantiate the page as pinned, non-uptodate, unlocked and in pagecache while we poke the user address?