From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751571AbXALCOa (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751572AbXALCOa (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:30 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57168 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751565AbXALCO3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:14:21 +0100 From: Nick Piggin To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hellstr=F6m?= Cc: Dave Airlie , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: Replace nopage() / nopfn() with fault() Message-ID: <20070112021421.GA28341@wotan.suse.de> References: <45A3AE70.603@tungstengraphics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <45A3AE70.603@tungstengraphics.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:02:08PM +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote: > Nick, > > We're working to slowly get the new DRM memory manager into the > mainstream kernel. > This means we have a need for the page fault handler patch you wrote > some time ago. > I guess we could take the no_pfn() route, but that would need a check > for racing > unmap_mapping_range(), and other problems may arise. > > What is the current status and plans for inclusion of the fault() code? Hi Thomas, fault should have gone in already, but the ordering of my patchset was a little bit unfortunate :P I will submit them to Andrew later today. Nick