Re: Linux 5.1-rc5

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu May 02 2019 - 19:16:51 EST


On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:17:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I ruthlessly also entirely ignored MIPS, SH and sparc, since they seem
> largely irrelevant, partly since even theoretically this whole issue
> needs a _lot_ of memory.

Adding the relevant people - while the might be irrelevant, at least
mips and sparc have some giant memory systems. And I'd really like
to see the arch-specific GUP implementations to go away for other
reasons, as we have a few issues to sort out with GUP usage now
(we just had discussions at LSF/MM), and the less implementations we
have to deal with the better.