RE: [patch 4/8] x86 PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions

["Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>]

 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:57 AM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
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>Venkatesh; Siddha, Suresh B
>Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] x86 PAT: hooks in generic vm code to 
>help archs to track pfnmap regions
>
>On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:26:51 -0800
>Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> --- tip.orig/mm/memory.c	2008-11-11 10:10:11.000000000 -0800
>> +++ tip/mm/memory.c	2008-11-11 12:10:18.000000000 -0800
>> @@ -99,6 +99,28 @@ int randomize_va_space __read_mostly =
>>  					2;
>>  #endif
>>  
>> +#ifndef track_pfn_vma_new
>> +int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t prot,
>> +			unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size)
>> +{
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#ifndef track_pfn_vma_copy
>> +int track_pfn_vma_copy(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>> +{
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#ifndef untrack_pfn_vma
>> +void untrack_pfn_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long pfn,
>> +			unsigned long size)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +#endif
>
>Using __weak would provide a somewhat neater result here.
>

Thought about that. But, then remembered the issues with gcc versions and __weak, as in here
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/1/368

and decided to take the safer approach.

Thanks,
Venki