"Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> What about pushing the fb_defio fixes independently of any new >> fb_defio users? If fb_defio was worth merging into Linus's tree, it >> should be worth fixing there, whether new users are in shape already >> or not. > > I think that Andrew's message is saying that there may be a race > condition in the defio patch itself as opposed to the defio user > patch. > > If there is no race condition or other problems, then I think it would > make sense to merge the defio patch independent of metronomefb or > other new patches that use defio. > > Thanks, > jaya Any progress on this? Considering that fb_defio is utterly broken without the fix (writing the frame buffer makes the VM endlessly invoke vm_ops.page_mkwrite()), wouldn't it make sense to merge the fix even if it still has issues? _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
