[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 3/3] spufs: remove need for struct page for SPEs

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Feb 8 01:52:26 EST 2007


On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:50:52PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch removes the need for struct page for SPE local store
> and registers from spufs. It also makes the locking much more
> obvious and no longer relying on the truncate logic black magic
> for protecting against races between unmap_mapping_range() and
> new pages faulted in. It does so by switching to a nopfn() handler
> and using the new vm_insert_pfn() to setup the PTEs itself while
> holding a lock on the SPE.
> 
> The nice thing is that this patch actually removes a lot more code
> than it adds :-)

Looks good to me.




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