Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] uaccess: add pagefault_count to thread_info

[LF.Tan]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:23 PM, David Hildenbrand
<dahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch adds the pagefault_count to the thread_info of all
> architectures. It will be used to count the pagefault_disable() levels
> on a per-thread basis.
>
> We are not reusing the preempt_count as this is per cpu on x86 and we want to
> demangle pagefault_disable() from preemption in the future.
>
> The new counter is added directly below the preempt_count, except for archs
> relying on a manual calculation of asm offsets - to minimize the changes.
>
Hi David

Is this patchset targeted for 3.19? If yes, then we need this for
arch/nios2 as well (new arch in 3.19).
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