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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized
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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized |
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Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:45:29 +0100 |
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"Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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?
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