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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associated helper macros.
    William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > Adam Litke wrote:
    >
    >>> struct vm_operations_struct * vm_ops;
    >>>+ const struct pagetable_operations_struct * pagetable_ops;
    >
    >
    > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:18:30PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
    >
    >>Can you remind me why this isn't in vm_ops?
    >>Also, it is going to be hugepage-only, isn't it? So should the naming be
    >>changed to reflect that? And #ifdef it...
    >
    >
    > ISTR potential ppc64 users coming out of the woodwork for something I
    > didn't recognize the name of, but I may be confusing that with your
    > patch. I can implement additional users (and useful ones at that)
    > needing this in particular if desired.

    Yes I would be interested in seeing useful additional users of this
    that cannot use our regular virtual memory, before making it a general
    thing.

    I just don't want to see proliferation of these things, if possible.

    > Adam Litke wrote:
    >
    >>>+struct pagetable_operations_struct {
    >>>+ int (*fault)(struct mm_struct *mm,
    >
    >
    > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:18:30PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
    >
    >>I got dibs on fault ;)
    >>My callback is a sanitised one that basically abstracts the details of the
    >>virtual memory mapping away, so it is usable by drivers and filesystems.
    >>You actually want to bypass the normal fault handling because it doesn't
    >>know how to deal with your virtual memory mapping. Hmm, the best suggestion
    >>I can come up with is handle_mm_fault... unless you can think of a better
    >>name for me to use.
    >
    >
    > Two fault handling methods callbacks raise an eyebrow over here at least.
    > I was vaguely hoping for unification of the fault handling callbacks.

    I don't know if it would be so clean to do that as they are at different levels.
    Adam's fault is before the VM translation (and bypasses it), and mine is after.

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