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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:09:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206010947.7b3e9d5e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202288778.31295.2.camel@localhost>
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:06:18 +0100 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > I got x86-64 compiled by removing the #include <asm/pgalloc.h> from
> > > asm-generic/tlb.h. But who knows what will break if the include is
> > > missing .. I'll cross compile some of the other architectures next.
> > >
> >
> > urgh, well, thanks for trying. If there's significant risk factor (or
> > hassle) in fixing the macros then I'd suggest we not do it for now - it's a
> > separate project.
>
> I'm still at it. I does make sense to convert the damn macros to inline
> functions. The question now is the order of things, the macro cleanup
> first or the sub-page page tables first? I would prefer the sub-page
> page tables first since that code has been hanging around in -mm for a
> while and could go upstream after I regenerated the patch and test
> compiled it again. We do need it for KVM and we want to push our KVM
> patches for s390 soon.
I'd suggest do the macro ceanup later. That's the sort of thing which we
can/should trickle through arch maintainers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 14:30 [patch 0/3] page table changes schwidefsky
2007-11-12 14:30 ` [patch 1/3] add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free schwidefsky
2007-11-12 14:30 ` [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables schwidefsky
2008-01-02 20:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-02 21:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-02 21:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-03 13:12 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 14:01 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-01 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03 5:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-03 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-04 10:36 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-04 10:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-04 11:02 ` Russell King
2008-02-04 11:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 14:39 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-05 18:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-06 9:06 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-06 9:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-06 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-06 15:50 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-12 14:30 ` [patch 3/3] arch_rebalance_pgtables call schwidefsky
2007-11-13 12:33 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-14 9:26 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-14 10:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-14 11:49 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-14 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-15 17:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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