Re: [PATCH] kiobuf/rawio fixes for 2.4.0-test10-pre6

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 06:16:28 EST


Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>> + map = follow_page(ptr, datain, &failed);
>> + if (failed) {
>> + /*
>> + * Page got stolen before we could lock it down.
>> + * Retry.
>> + */
>> spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>> - dprintk (KERN_ERR "Missing page in map_user_kiobuf\n");
>> - goto out_unlock;
>> + goto faultin;

> This is suboptimal (walks the pagetables twice if the page is just mapped). It
> should be a follow page first and handle_mm_fault only if follow page failed.

I did only forward-port the fixes from Stpehen's 2.3.99pre2 patchset
because no one else seemed to be interested. If someone with more
vm-experience (e.g. you) gets interested because of this patch: fine.

        Christoph

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