[RFC PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm: update pmdp_invalidate to return old pmd value

Michal Hocko mhocko at kernel.org
Fri Jul 28 17:01:31 AEST 2017


On Thu 27-07-17 21:18:35, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/27/2017 06:24 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >EMISSING_CHANGELOG
> >
> >besides that no user actually uses the return value. Please fold this
> >into the patch which uses the new functionality.
> 
> 
> The patch series was suppose to help Kirill to make progress with the his
> series at
> 
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170615145224.66200-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
> 
> It is essentially implementing the pmdp_invalidate update for ppc64. His
> series does it for x86-64.

OK, that was not clear from the patch, however. You could either reply
to the original thread or make it explicitly clear in the cover letter.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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