From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.5-aa1 arch updates
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:30:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16496.36001.210779.472061@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040404154924.GD2164@dualathlon.random>
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> I'm unsure about the arch/ppc/mm/pgtable.c part, I mean, ppc is being
> tested heavily, how can it be necessary if nobody ever got an oops yet?
> OTOH your patch certainly cannot hurt and it might be needed after all.
> Maybe I should apply it after all, it'd be nice to get a comment on this
> bit from ppc people who knows tlb.c better to be sure.
We definitely need page->mapping and page->index set on pte and pmd
pages, both on ppc and ppc64. Otherwise the flush_tlb_* functions
won't work properly. Hugh's patch looks good to me (at least as far
as the ppc/ppc64 bits are concerned).
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-04 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-04 13:48 Hugh Dickins
2004-04-04 15:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-04 22:30 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2004-04-04 23:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-04 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-04 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
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