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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, Catalin.Marinas@arm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	mhocko@suse.cz, Steve.Capper@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: thp: Fix the update_mmu_cache() last argument passing in mm/huge_memory.c
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:32:12 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920.153212.297605753294494829.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120920124401.GF4654@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>

From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:44:01 +0100

> Just to clarify: do you want a cast from pmd_t * to pte_t * or instead copy
> the hugetlb code and pass ptes around instead of pmds? The latter is pretty
> invasive...

But will be necessary for SPARC64 and POWERPC where the hugetlb
entries are encoded at the PTE level.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-11 16:47 [PATCH 0/3] Minor changes to common hugetlb code for ARM Will Deacon
2012-09-11 16:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: thp: Fix the pmd_clear() arguments in pmdp_get_and_clear() Will Deacon
2012-09-11 17:12   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-09-12 15:30   ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-11 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: thp: Fix the update_mmu_cache() last argument passing in mm/huge_memory.c Will Deacon
2012-09-11 17:38   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-09-12 15:40   ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-12 15:51     ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-15 13:38   ` Ralf Baechle
2012-09-18 19:33     ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-19  9:12       ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-19 15:53         ` Ralf Baechle
2012-09-20 12:44           ` Will Deacon
2012-09-20 19:32             ` David Miller [this message]
2012-09-11 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: Introduce HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE Will Deacon
2012-09-11 17:41   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-09-12 15:32   ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-12 18:06     ` Chris Metcalf
2012-09-12 18:10       ` Will Deacon
2012-09-13 19:05   ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-13 21:26     ` Will Deacon
2012-09-13 21:27     ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-09-13 21:40       ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12 15:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] Minor changes to common hugetlb code for ARM Michal Hocko
2012-09-12 15:55   ` Will Deacon
2012-09-13 12:22     ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-13  0:12   ` Andrea Arcangeli

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