From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261379AbVEDTGB (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 15:06:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261381AbVEDTGB (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 15:06:01 -0400 Received: from smtp002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.33]:38536 "HELO smtp002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261379AbVEDTFy (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 15:05:54 -0400 From: Blaisorblade To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] Uml: kludgy compilation fixes for x86-64 subarch modules support [for -mm] Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 21:01:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Andrew Morton , jdike@addtoit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de References: <20050501184515.F1AA48D835@zion> <20050502165103.6d76f394.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050502165103.6d76f394.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505042101.30458.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:51, Andrew Morton wrote: > blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote: > > These are some trivial fixes for the x86-64 subarch module support. The > > only potential problem is that I have to modify > > arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c, to avoid copying the whole of it. > > > > I can't use it verbatim because it depends on a special vmalloc-like area > > for modules, which for now (maybe that's to fix, I guess not) UML/x86-64 > > has not. I went the easy way and reused the i386 vmalloc()-based > > allocator. > > Why is this "for -mm" and not for -linus? That's a report on the current "review/testing" status, in this case because I wanted an ACK from Andi Kleen. Which acked it for himself but warned about the possible breakage for other archs. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Skype user "PaoloGiarrusso" Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade