Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161126AbWJNN3E (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:29:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030276AbWJNN3D (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:29:03 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.13]:59297 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422630AbWJNN3B (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:29:01 -0400 From: Ingo Oeser To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: fault handler to replace nopage and populate Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:28:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Carsten Otte , Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel References: <20061007105758.14024.70048.sendpatchset@linux.site> <5c77e7070610120456t1bdaa95cre611080c9c953582@mail.gmail.com> <20061012120735.GA20191@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20061012120735.GA20191@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610141528.50542.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 24 Hi Nick, On Thursday, 12. October 2006 14:07, Nick Piggin wrote: > Actually, filemap_xip needs some attention I think... if xip files > can be truncated or invalidated (I assume they can), then we need to > lock the page, validate that it is the correct one and not truncated, > and return with it locked. ??? Isn't XIP for "eXecuting In Place" from ROM or FLASH? How to truncate these? I thought the whole idea of XIP was a pure RO mapping? They should be valid from mount to umount. Regards Ingo Oeser, a bit puzzled about that... - 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/