From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932375AbZJGHdb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 03:33:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932142AbZJGHda (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 03:33:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35993 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932146AbZJGHda (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 03:33:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 00:32:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Miller Cc: mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org, paulus@samba.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing Message-Id: <20091007003202.5a8ac565.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20091007.001321.197898334.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop> <20091006122359.GA7614@elte.hu> <20091007.001321.197898334.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:13:21 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:23:59 +0200 > > > > > * Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > >> OK, so I rewrote it a few more times, does the below make everybody > >> feel warm and fuzzy? > > > > Yeah, looks perfect to me - applied to tip:perf/urgent, thanks Peter! > > > > Dave, could you please test it on Sparc too? The Git coordinates are at: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perf/urgent > > Works fine here, I forced the vmalloc stuff on using the debug > option. Once your stuff goes in I'll add the select statement > to arch/sparc/Kconfig > > Andrew also needs to marge the vmalloc_user() patch. I almost > forgot that to apply to my tree when testing :-) I seem to have lost it. We might as well keep the two patches together so can you please handle it?