Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] Uml: kludgy compilation fixes for x86-64 subarch modules support [for -mm]

From: Blaisorblade
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 14:08:51 EST


On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:51, Andrew Morton wrote:
> blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > These are some trivial fixes for the x86-64 subarch module support. The
> > only potential problem is that I have to modify
> > arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c, to avoid copying the whole of it.
> >
> > I can't use it verbatim because it depends on a special vmalloc-like area
> > for modules, which for now (maybe that's to fix, I guess not) UML/x86-64
> > has not. I went the easy way and reused the i386 vmalloc()-based
> > allocator.
>
> Why is this "for -mm" and not for -linus?
That's a report on the current "review/testing" status, in this case because I
wanted an ACK from Andi Kleen. Which acked it for himself but warned about
the possible breakage for other archs.
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