[PATCH v5 1/6] powerpc: Allow flush_icache_range to work across ranges >4GB

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 7 04:49:07 AEDT 2019


On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 07:04:04AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 04/11/2019 à 20:43, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> >Please send this separately, to be committed right now?  It is a bug fix,
> >independent of the rest of the series.
> 
> Patch 4/6 needs it, as it drops the function.
> 
> Or do you mean that the series should drop the assembly at once, and 
> this patch should only go into stable ?

I meant that you can say these patches (yes, 2/ as well) are bug fixes,
independent of the rest, and they can be picked up immediately, there
is no need to wait for v18 of this series.

> But I guess mpe can take this patch alone if he wants to ?

Yeah, but you can help him do that ;-)


Segher


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