Re: [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 08:23:11 EST


Linus, any word on these? I'd really love to get jejb and hch off
my back. :)

cheers, Kyle

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:18AM +0000, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> As discussed on linux-arch@ recently, these fixes are necessary for
> XFS to work on virtually indexed architectures since otherwise vmalloc'd
> pages are not properly flushed from the cache.
>
> Thanks!
> Kyle
>
> The following changes since commit 8bea8672edfca7ec5f661cafb218f1205863b343:
> Stephen Rothwell (1):
> mfd: compile fix for twl4030 renaming
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> hera.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6.git coherence
>
> James Bottomley (6):
> mm: add coherence API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
> parisc: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
> arm: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
> sh: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
> block: permit I/O to vmalloc/vmap kernel pages
> xfs: fix xfs to work with Virtually Indexed architectures
>
> Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 10 ++++++++++
> arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 8 ++++++++
> arch/sh/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 8 ++++++++
> fs/bio.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/highmem.h | 6 ++++++
> 7 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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