Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 14:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> make_page_uptodate() is most hideous part I have run into. > >> It has to know details about other layers to now what not > >> to stomp. I think my incorrect simplification of this is what mes

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> make_page_uptodate() is most hideous part I have run into. >> It has to know details about other layers to now what not >> to stomp. I think my incorrect simplification of this is what messed >> things up, last round. > > Not really, it's just named f

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 13:14, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 15 October 2007 19:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:06:19 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Bor

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 15 October 2007 19:16, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:06:19 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramd

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Monday 15 October 2007 19:05, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nick Piggin: >>> > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> > > Andrew, this i

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 15 October 2007 19:05, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nick Piggin: >> > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit >> >

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Monday 15 October 2007 19:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:06:19 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit > > > unmaintained, so decided t

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Monday 15 October 2007 19:05, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nick Piggin: > > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit > > > unmaintained, so decided to sent the patch t

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:06:19 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit > > unmaintained, so decided to sent the patch to you :-). > > I have CCed Ted, who did work

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nick Piggin: > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit > > unmaintained, so decided to sent the patch to you :-). > > I have CCed Ted, who did work on the code in the 90s. I

Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Piggin
On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit > unmaintained, so decided to sent the patch to you :-). > I have CCed Ted, who did work on the code in the 90s. I found no current > email address of Chad Page. This rea

[PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure

2007-10-15 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit unmaintained, so decided to sent the patch to you :-). I have CCed Ted, who did work on the code in the 90s. I found no current email address of Chad Page. We have seen ramdisk based install systems, where some pages of mapped librar