On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 09:49:36PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

Dave Martin [off-list ref] writes:

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(Note: This is an arm64-specific series, but the concepts introduced may
be of interest to other arches -- see in particular patch 6.)

Hi Dave,

I think we (powerpc) will probably want to use this too.

I haven't dug into the details yet, I'll try and do that after the 4.12
merge window.

That would be great, thanks.

Since I've been focusing on arm64 and SVE, there may be generalities
or design issues that I've missed.

Cheers
---Dave