Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 8 authors, 2009-07-28

Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()

From: Michael Ellerman <hidden>
Date: 2009-07-16 01:36:21
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml

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

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