Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:38:44 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: running get_user_pages() from kernel thread |
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:45:05PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > liking the below better - what do you think? If you approve, I'll send > it in to Andrew for mmotm: I can't quite justify it without KSM.
I think it's definitely better to fix gup to be safe from kernel thread even without KSM so this can go in mainline well before KSM. Unless gup requires a swapin fault it won't ever trigger.
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