Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932569AbVKRHrS (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:47:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932571AbVKRHrS (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:47:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:46286 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932569AbVKRHrR (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:47:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:46:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Hugh Dickins Cc: davem@davemloft.net, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] unpaged: COW on VM_UNPAGED Message-Id: <20051117234625.49cc7b89.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20051117.155230.25121238.davem@davemloft.net> <437D6AD0.5080909@yahoo.com.au> <20051117.224516.118147408.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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 Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 23 Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Nick Piggin > > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:46:56 +1100 > > > > > I think for 2.6.15, yes. We [read: I :(] was too hasty in removing > > > this completely. > > No, that was not too hasty: we all agreed that the case _ought_ not to > arise, and we hadn't worked out the right code to handle it if it did > arise. What was disappointing is that nobody reported the messages > while it was in -mm The window was small - only 1-2 days. I took a punt on jamming it in early because we want the patches and everyone in the world seems to be hacking on core mm. As it turns out it wasn't a terribly good punt, but we'll get there. Well. You will ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/