On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 17:49 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
I haven't had a chance to test or even build on most architectures, the
patch is reasonably trivial but I may have screwed up regardless, I
appologize in advance, let me know if something is wrong.
Builds for the important architectures, powerpc, ia64, arm, sparc,
sparc64, oh and x86:
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/1976/
(based on your test branch 34f25476)
cheers