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Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?
- To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
- Subject: Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?
- From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:47:50 -0700
- Cc: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>,Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,Joseph A Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net>,"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Tuesday 07 May 2002 20:37, Christian Smith wrote:
>> - do_page_fault() is definately in the wrong place, or at least, the work
>> it does (it finds the generic vma of the fault. This should be generic
>> code.)
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:37:57PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> It's per-arch because different architectures have very different sets of
> conditions that have to be handled. If you like, you can try to break out
> some cross-arch factors and make them into inlines or something. That's
> cleanup work that's hard and mostly thankless. We need more gluttons for
> punishment^W^W^W volunteers to tackle this kind of thing.
I believe I'm already signed up for this, or at least I'm putting down
code on this front.
Cheers,
Bill
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