Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753379AbXITV2l (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:28:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751927AbXITV2Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:28:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:56858 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751971AbXITV2Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:28:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:17:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: cpw@sgi.com (Cliff Wickman) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][VER 4] mspec: handle shrinking virtual memory areas Message-Id: <20070920141740.aaa4d1d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070920203335.013542166F4@attica.americas.sgi.com> References: <20070920203335.013542166F4@attica.americas.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-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: 835 Lines: 23 On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:33:34 -0500 cpw@sgi.com (Cliff Wickman) wrote: > Stress testing revealed the need for more revision. > This is a revision of Andrew's mspec-handle-shrinking-virtual-memory-areas.patch > > Version 4: clear/release fetchop pages only when vma_data is no longer shared > > Version 3: single thread the clearing of vma_data maddr[] > Version 2: refcount maintained as atomic_t (as before the version 1 patch) > Boy am I getting tired of this patch :( Version #3943 was just merged into mainline, so can you please prepare a diff against Linus's tree for #3944? Ta. - 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/