From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751100AbVJXPh2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:37:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751101AbVJXPh2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:37:28 -0400 Received: from silver.veritas.com ([143.127.12.111]:43287 "EHLO silver.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100AbVJXPh1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:37:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:36:26 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@goblin.wat.veritas.com To: Anton Altaparmakov cc: David Howells , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what happened to page_mkwrite? - was: Re: page_mkwrite seems broken In-Reply-To: <1130167005.19518.35.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <1130167005.19518.35.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Oct 2005 15:37:23.0035 (UTC) FILETIME=[D3DE92B0:01C5D8B0] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:28 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote in another thread: > > > Isn't this exactly what David Howells' page_mkwrite stuff in -mm's > > > add-page-becoming-writable-notification.patch is designed for? > > > > > > Though it looks a little broken to me as it stands (beyond the two > > > fixup patches already there). I've not found time to double-check ..... > > What happened with page_mkwrite? It seems to have disappeared both from > -mm and generally from the face of the earth... page_mkwrite?? No, never heard of it round here, you must be mistaken ;) But seriously, Andrew dropped it from 2.6.13-rc5-mm1, for expedient reasons: - Dropped cachefs and the cachefs-for-AFS patches. These get in the way of memory management testing a bit, and they're being redone anyway. So Andrew's 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 directory should contain its last public state (by which time I'd fixed up those various things I'd found to be broken). But David may have redone a lot since then, I don't know: he's the one to ask. (And I'm afraid I've done my best to make the old patch not apply to current -mm.) Hugh > I am very interested in having such ability for ntfs... > > Is anyone still working on this? If not why not? Did it prove > impractical or ...? > > If no-one is working on this anymore, where do I find the last "current" > patch? > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > Best regards, > > Anton