[patch 2/2] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on powerpc architecture

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Mar 19 17:31:55 EST 2013


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:05:58PM -0800, akpm at linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Michel Lespinasse <walken at google.com>
> Subject: mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on powerpc architecture
> 
> Update the powerpc slice_get_unmapped_area function to make use of
> vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken at google.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

A little unnecessarily cryptic in places, but the logic looks sound.

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