Re: CONFIG_SLUB/USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS compatibility

[Chris Zankel]

On 10/14/2013 04:49 AM, Max Filippov wrote:
> Buddy allocator was used here prior to commit 6656920 [XTENSA] Add
> support for cache-aliasing I can only guess that the change was made
> to make allocated page tables have the same colour, but am not sure
> why this is needed. Chris? 
Max, I think you are right that in an earlier attempt to support cache
aliasing, we tried to allocate pages with the correct 'color', and
cached pages locally (if I remember correctly). The approach we use now
doesn't require that so the suggested patches are fine. (Note that cache
aliasing support hasn't been committed to mainline yet)

Thanks,
-Chris

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