Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752032AbWJZLJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:09:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752124AbWJZLJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:09:28 -0400 Received: from smtp107.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.217]:56214 "HELO smtp107.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752136AbWJZLJ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:09:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=YcBU0SnUzSZfsIXJWYDE/HKFWnRLLKsNqKnmUVDjNWIqxKnC5C988pa8nniA1EfOjlcyG564NM+45ItJT5T9PrlhZnHZY1cPgD95ThqO9af3zt/4W7Hw1xx63Vw0+xxiEDurEpVvm2+1kWgUv1BZHAUdE1jUorhpxFklhzpUe0s= ; Message-ID: <45409761.9000806@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:09:21 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Airlie CC: Nick Piggin , Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: fault handler to replace nopage and populate References: <20061007105758.14024.70048.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061007105853.14024.95383.sendpatchset@linux.site> <21d7e9970610241431j38c59ec5rac17f780813e6f05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970610241431j38c59ec5rac17f780813e6f05@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 32 Dave Airlie wrote: > On 10/7/06, Nick Piggin wrote: > >> Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that >> encodes the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear >> mappings. >> > > Hi Nick, > > what is the status of this patch? I'm just trying to line up a kernel > tree for the new DRM memory management code, which really would like > this... > > Dave. Hi Dave, Blocked by another kernel bug at the moment. I hope both fixes can make it into 2.6.20, but if that doesn't look like it will happen, then I might try reworking the patchset to break the ->fault change out by itself because there are several others who would like to use it as well. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/