Re: [PATCH] Add notification of page becoming writable to VMA ops

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:26 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:11 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > There really is quite a difference between mm/*.c in -mm and Linus
> > kernel at present.  Is all this planned to be merged as soon as 2.6.14
> > is out or is -mm just a playground for now with no mainline merge
> > intentions?
> 
> It certainly won't all be merged as soon as 2.6.14 is out, some of it
> has only just got into -mm.  Andrew's current intention is to merge
> the early part of the changes soonish after 2.6.14 gets out, but he's
> not likely to merge it all into 2.6.15.

Ok, sounds good.  As long as they at least start converging...

> But we aren't using -mm as a playground: it is likely to go forward,
> provided it doesn't show regressions of some kind while it's in -mm.

Cool.

> > Just asking so I know whether to work against stock kernels or -mm for
> > the moment...
> 
> I'd recommend -mm for now.

Great, thanks, will do.

> page_mkwrite will want a spell in there too, won't it?

Sure.  But if the other mm changes in -mm were not going forward it
would be a little silly to get page_mkwrite to work there only to have
to rewrite it in order to get it merged...

If Linus really is going to release .14 in the next few days,
page_mkwrite is never going to make it into .15 anyway, no matter
what...  But .16 would be a realistic target I would have thought which
seems to fit in nicely with the plans for -mm.  (-:

Best regards,

        Anton
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