Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1

From: Brice Goglin
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 03:06:07 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - Lots of cleanups from the x86 merge (making more and more use of common
> files), but also the big page attribute stuff is in and caused a fair
> amount of churn, and while most of the issues should have been very
> obvious and all got fixed, this is definitely one of those things that
> we want a lot of very wide testing of to make sure nothing regressed.
>

Now that __ioremap isn't available anymore, is there anything in the new
pageattr stuff to replace a manual __ioremap with __PAGE_PCD or
__PAGE_PSE? or do we have to wait for 2.6.26 to bring PAT support? I
don't see any new function accepting random page attributes as __ioremap
did.

thanks,
Brice

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