From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
hugh@veritas.com, jaredeh@gmail.com, cotte@de.ibm.com,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 2/2] mm: introduce optional pte_special pte bit
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:48:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080116054831.GD14049@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801152119000.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:57PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:48:42 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > > Can you give a pointer to some browsable archive?
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch
>
> .. and the discussion itself that actually explains why ARM has problems
> and why S390 suddenly _does_ have a bit for this after all?
>
> (Not that I consider marc to be really "browsable" in the first place.. )
>
> Linus
I sent you an exact link to the thread on marc in an earlier message...
not many others archive linux-arch or linux-mm unfortunately.
But no I didn't see a discussion of why s390 does have a bit, beyond the
s390 devs just asserting there is one, and providing a patch ;) I never
saw any of the discussions concluding that s390 does *not* have a bit
spare. Do you recall if they were public?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-13 3:08 [rfc] changes to user memory mapping scheme Nick Piggin
2008-01-13 3:09 ` [rfc][patch 1/2] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP Nick Piggin
2008-01-13 3:10 ` [rfc][patch 2/2] mm: introduce optional pte_special pte bit Nick Piggin
2008-01-13 3:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-13 4:39 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-13 4:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-13 5:06 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-13 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-13 20:46 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-14 21:04 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-15 9:18 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-16 3:38 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-16 4:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 4:37 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-16 4:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 4:51 ` David Miller
2008-01-16 5:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 5:48 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-01-16 9:52 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-16 5:17 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-16 10:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-16 18:18 ` Russell King
2008-01-16 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 17:14 ` David Howells
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