Re: [rfc][patch 0/3] a faster buffered write deadlock fix?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 03:41:30 EST


On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:07:15 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> So I have finally finished a first slightly-working draft of my new aops
> op (perform_write) proposal. I would be interested to hear comments about
> it. Most of my issues and concerns are in the patch headers themselves,
> so reply to them.
>
> The patches are against my latest buffered-write-fix patchset.

What happened with Linus's proposal to instantiate the page as pinned,
non-uptodate, unlocked and in pagecache while we poke the user address?
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