From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754812AbeCGXBa (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:01:30 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40118 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754500AbeCGXB3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:01:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:01:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Toshi Kani Cc: mhocko@suse.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, bp@suse.de, catalin.marinas@arm.com, guohanjun@huawei.com, will.deacon@arm.com, wxf.wang@hisilicon.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces Message-Id: <20180307150127.1e09e9826e0f2c80ce42fa4d@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180307183227.17983-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com> References: <20180307183227.17983-1-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20180307183227.17983-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-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, 7 Mar 2018 11:32:27 -0700 Toshi Kani wrote: > Implement pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page() on x86, which > clear a given pud/pmd entry and free up lower level page table(s). > Address range associated with the pud/pmd entry must have been purged > by INVLPG. OK, now we have implementations which match the naming ;) Again, is a cc:stable warranted? Do you have any preferences/suggestions as to which tree these should be merged through? You're hitting core, arm and x86.