On Sat, 28 May 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Though I think I'm arriving at the conclusion that this patch > > is correct as is, despite the doubts that have arisen. > > Well, you hopefully saw my second email where I had come to the same conclusion. Yes, thanks. > > So I applied the third patch as well, after all. I think it's at the > very least at least "more correct" than what we have now. Whether that > "page_mapped()" should then be extended to do something else is an > additional thing, and I suspect it would affect the slow-path case > too. Yes, I agree it's certainly more correct (two machines running well with it for 33 hours now, one of them would hang in 7 or 17 hours). And I'm increasingly confident that it's complete too, but it will be interesting to see whether I've persuaded Peter. It was certainly a very good point that he raised, that I hadn't thought of at all. Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>