Re: AIO patches reworked against radix-tree-writeback changes

From: Suparna Bhattacharya
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 22:43:28 EST


On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:31:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:59:37AM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > I just uploaded an update to the AIO patchset against the
> > -mm tree (2.6.5-rc3-mm4):
> > www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/suparna/aio/265rc3mm4
>
> Why is 4g4g-aio-hang-fix.patch still only in your patchkit? Despite the
> name it's not specific to the 4G/4G patch for x86 but nessecary for all
> architectures that have a kernel mapping unrelated to the user one (
> sparc64 and s390 come to mind).

I guess it must be because aio_kick_handler() isn't actually used in
the mainline tree as yet, but is used by the retry-based AIO patches
(Similarly so for some of the use_mm fixes that are part of
aio-retry.patch).

Regards
Suparna

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Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@xxxxxxxxxx)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India

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