[RFC/PATCH] mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky at de.ibm.com
Mon Jul 20 17:48:18 EST 2009


On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:11:13 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > I would like to merge the new support that depends on this in 2.6.32,
> > > so unless there's major objections, I'd like this to go in early during
> > > the merge window. We can sort out separately how to carry the patch
> > > around in -next until then since the powerpc tree will have a dependency
> > > on it.
> > 
> > Can't see any problem with that.
> 
> CC'ing Linus here. How do you want to proceed with that merge ? (IE. so
> far nobody objected to the patch itself)
> 
> IE. The patch affects all archs, though it's a trivial change every
> time, but I'll have stuff in powerpc-next that depends on it, and so I'm
> not sure what the right approach is here. Should I put it in the powerpc
> tree ?
> 
> I also didn't have any formal Ack from anybody, neither mm folks nor
> arch maintainers :-)

Well the change is trivial, it just adds another unused argument to the
macros. For the records: it still compiles on s390.

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   Martin.

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