Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Make vm_get_page_prot arch specific.

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:10:59PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> With next generation power processor, we are having a new mmu model
> [1] that require us to maintain a different linux page table format.
> 
> Inorder to support both current and future ppc64 systems with a single
> kernel we need to make sure kernel can select between different page
> table format at runtime. With the new MMU (radix MMU) added, we will
> have to dynamically switch between different protection map. Hence
> override vm_get_page_prot instead of using arch_vm_get_page_prot. We
> also drop arch_vm_get_page_prot since only powerpc used it.
> 
> [1] http://ibm.biz/power-isa3 (Needs registration).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov