126624114890_557260007059Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:06:15PM +0100, Russell King wrote: Currently, I know Linus tree builds fine for most ARM platforms (thanks to the ARM kautobuild project.) However, Im seeing unexpecte

 
158224314189_574360007003Andrea Righi
yep! clear. Ok, in this case wouldnt be better at least to define pud_free() as: static inline pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd) { } I also like this :) -- To unsubscrib

 
113924974877_572160007860Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:28:42PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Our mails crossed. I will fix kbuild asap so you do not need to revert. Have crossed again, sorry. If you can get a fix for the asm/e

 
199323124563_573060007324Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:19:44 +0200 Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx wrote: KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: yep! clear. Ok, in this case wouldnt be better at least to define pud_free(

 
198728044281_536460007128Andrea Righi
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: The traditional location of the arch specific Makefiles has been at: include/asm-$ARCH But as suggested by several people

 
119020894540_507960007842Andrea Righi
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Andrea Righi wrote: Move multiple definitions of pmd_free() from different include/asm-* into mm/util.c. But this is horrible, because it forces a totally unnecessary fu

 
113922434273_532860007058Andrea Righi
yep! clear. Ok, in this case wouldnt be better at least to define pud_free() as: static inline pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd) { } I also like this :) -- To unsubscrib

 
133121254556_520860007123Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:19:44 +0200 Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx wrote: KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: yep! clear. Ok, in this case wouldnt be better at least to define pud_free(

 
106728394436_563060007624Ingo Molnar
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: I can second that. See rel="nofollow" userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/include-asm-generic-pgtable-nopmdh-macros-are-noxious-rea

 
195525554427_523560007250Ingo Molnar
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: I can second that. See rel="nofollow" userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/include-asm-generic-pgtable-nopmdh-macros-are-noxious-rea

 
136421094339_590460007000James Bottomley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: I can second that. See rel="nofollow" userweb.kernel.o

 
174623284243_501960007229James Bottomley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: I can second that. See rel="nofollow" userweb.kernel.o

 
107829884354_563560007200James Bottomley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Are you sure about this (the barrier)? Im sure. Try it. It perturbs the code quite a bit to have a function call in the thing, because it - clob

 
175822634038_519460007607James Bottomley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Are you sure about this (the barrier)? Im sure. Try it. It perturbs the code quite a bit to have a function call in the thing, because it - clob

 
181828484162_524460007081Mathieu Desnoyers
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Sorry ... should have been clearer. My main concern is the cost of barrier() which is just a memory clobber ... we have to use barriers to plac

 
149524474190_583460007379Mathieu Desnoyers
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Sorry ... should have been clearer. My main concern is the cost of barrier() which is just a memory clobber ... we have to use barriers to plac

 
183420974707_507660007363akpm
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:53:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:03:23 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Andrew, what was your decision v

 
130621954350_566060007546akpm
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:53:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:03:23 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Andrew, what was your decision v

 
186125884810_590060007703akpm
The patch titled clean up duplicated alloc/free_thread_info has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was clean-up-duplicated-alloc-free_thread_info.patch This patch was dropped b

 
150726004551_566960007634akpm
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx This patch contains the following cleanups for the asm/ptrace.h userspace headers: - include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm already lists ptrace.h, remove the super

 
175023394081_594160007433Adrian Bunk
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx We duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many platforms (the majority uses __get_free_pages/free_pages). This patch defines common def

 
131920064530_502560007647Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:43 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Commit 27ac792ca0b0a1e7e65f20342260650516c95864 (PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures)

 
138823894843_573960007672Andrea Righi
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:14:55 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Ideally, all headers should be self-contained. IOW, they should #include everything they use. Yup. And the core reas

 
128529114260_509460007042Andrew Morton
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:14:55PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:55:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... pls test: diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~a include/lin

 
179823164642_534860007487Andrew Morton
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:34:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: We should make arch_pick_mmap_layout __weak and nuke that ifdef. I strongly disagree. I find it makes it harder to follow code flow

 
198227364826_506360007999Grant Likely
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:34:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: We should make arch_pick_mmap_layout __weak and nuke that ifdef. I strongly dis

 
149629964005_502660007089Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Grant Likely wrote: Question. If I use this pattern, and use the __weak attribute on core code functions wrapped with a #ifndef, then how does it mesh with EXPORT_SYM

 
167324094478_551660007528Ingo Molnar
GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD vmlinux arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sy

 
118724344438_544760007247akpm
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx This patch contains the following cleanups for the asm/ptrace.h userspace headers: - include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm already lists ptrace.h, remove the super

 
148923264564_513160007550akpm
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx We duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many platforms (the majority uses __get_free_pages/free_pages). This patch defines common def

 
161826564285_544460007962akpm
The patch titled flag parameters: eventfd has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was flag-parameters-eventfd.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or

 
144322164957_544860007978akpm
The patch titled flag parameters add-on: remove epoll_create size param has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was flag-parameters-add-on-remove-epoll_create-size-param.patch T

 
153729164386_501560007535akpm
The patch titled flag parameters: paccept has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was flag-parameters-paccept.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or

 
154426184969_598260007497akpm
The patch titled flag parameters: epoll_create has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was flag-parameters-epoll_create.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into m

 
122925554823_579460007497Geert Uytterhoeven
The patch titled bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was bootmem-replace-node_boot_start-in-struct-bootmem_data.patch

 
134323044153_562960007874Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:49:27 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Because an argument of mips virt_to_phys() is an pointer and initrd_start is unsigned long. It

 
159021914089_554660007331Nick Piggin
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:22:20 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: So theres definitely room for a small janitors project... Probably the best short term solution i

 
152321774246_591060007678Nick Piggin
Hi Nick, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:39:49PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: I think everybody is hoping to have a workable mmu notifier scheme merged in 2.6.27 (myself included). However I do have som

 
144427374296_541360007361Nick Piggin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:08:10AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: Well I just was never completely satisfied with how that turned out. There was an assertion that invalidate range begin/end were the r

 
191029484917_573360007603Nick Piggin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:28:26PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: 3) livelock/starvation problem with TLB holdoff Thats not shooting yourself in the foot if you are forced into the design. Definit

 
123020844908_538460007656Nick Piggin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:10:15PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: I am talking about a number of threads starving another thread of the same process, but that isnt shooting themselves in the foot beca

 
125723024848_534760007488Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:02:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:28:26PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: If I had seen even a single number to show the more complex sch

 
167823714666_592560007859Christoph Lameter
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:49:15PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:14:50PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: But I also wear a VM (as in virtual memory not virtual machine ;)

 
160227264596_589860007314Christoph Lameter
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:49:15PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:14:50PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: But I also wear a VM (as in virtual memory not virtual machine ;)

 
125920484262_517560007002Christoph Lameter
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:19:44AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: Yes we have had so much talk about this that I am a bit tired of talking about it. I vaguely remember bringing up the same point

 
177920124086_568660007799Christoph Lameter
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:19:44AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: Yes we have had so much talk about this that I am a bit tired of talking about it. I vaguely remember bringing up the same point

 
134226554101_519060007950Christoph Lameter
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:42:12AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: I think the current implementation is fine for the long run, it can provide the fastest perform

 
167826804321_534360007602Christoph Lameter
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:42:12AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: I think the current implementation is fine for the long run, it can provide the fastest perform

 
120222064328_579860007466Nick Piggin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:08:10AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, I just voice my opinion and let Andrew and Linus decide. T

 
111223634515_537460007297Nick Piggin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:08:10AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, I just voice my opinion and let Andrew and Linus decide. T