2012-06-12 15:57:07

by Kautuk Consul

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19 v2.1] avr32/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault

hi,

When can I see this patch in linux-next ?

Thanks,
Kautuk.

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:46 PM, H?vard Skinnemoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Kautuk Consul <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Commit d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99
>> (mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
>> commit 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb
>> (x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
>>
>> The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
>> for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
>>
>> These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
>> during OOM killer invocation.
>>
>> Port these changes to AVR32.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>


Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19 v2.1] avr32/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault

Around Tue 12 Jun 2012 21:27:03 +0530 or thereabout, Kautuk Consul wrote:

Hello,

> When can I see this patch in linux-next ?
>

Currently there are no AVR32 git tree, since I don't have a kernel.org
account. I hope to meet somebody with a signed key, but until I do, could you
run the patch by Andrew?

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:46 PM, H?vard Skinnemoen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Kautuk Consul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Commit d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99
>>> (mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
>>> commit 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb
>>> (x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
>>>
>>> The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
>>> for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
>>>
>>> These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
>>> during OOM killer invocation.
>>>
>>> Port these changes to AVR32.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <[email protected]>
>>
>> Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>

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