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

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 21:36:27 EST


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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