From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262741AbVCWSFH (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:05:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262775AbVCWSFH (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:05:07 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:10428 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262741AbVCWSE4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:04:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:02:52 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: rth@twiddle.net, akpm@osdl.org, pluto@pld-linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: alpha spinlock.h update Message-Id: <20050323100252.03d03b9c.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <42419A00.1030206@pobox.com> References: <20050322130145.69915bea.akpm@osdl.org> <20050323144922.GA19677@twiddle.net> <42419A00.1030206@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:32:00 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: > I wonder if its 4-level page tables. I think DaveM, in another thread, > is chasing flush- issues right now, on sparc64. It has to do with Hugh Dickin's patches which haven't been integrated yet. It may be the case that Alpha needs to override the pgd_addr_end(), pmd_addr_end(), etc. macros (just like sparc64 and ia64), especially if there are holes in the Alpha address space. But my recollection is that there are not any. Linus's tree is working just fine for me, it's just the new stuff Hugh Dickins and Nick Piggin are working on.