Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> While looking at that code, I found the placement of might_sleep() a tad
> confusing, I'd expect that to be in fput() since that is the regular
> entry point (all except AIO, which does crazy things).

I think it's the crazy AIO thing that is one of the reasons for doing it 
in __fput. If it's just in fput() it covers the _normal_ cases better, but 
I doubt that those were the primary worry ;). 

		Linus
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