[PATCH] powerpc/THP: Wait for all hash_page calls to finish before invalidating HPTE entries

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 19 20:18:33 EST 2013


On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 17:14 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:

> > This is a bug fix. The details can be found at 
> 
> Can you make this more obvious in the changelog (as well as making it 80
> col).  I don't see 'bug' mentioned anywhere.  'Fix' is mentioned
> somewhere in the middle of the changelog.
> 
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/60266
> 
> OK, but V10 THP is not in yet, right?  So why not roll it into that
> series rather than pushing broken stuff and fixing it?

Right, this is expected. This fix is a result of me asking him to do it
that way on ST and should eventually be folded in the series (or
re-ordered to be in there before the patch that enables THP).

Cheers,
Ben.




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