From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:59045 "EHLO linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491003Ab1GVKLf (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:11:35 +0200 Received: from duck.linux-mips.net (duck.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by duck.linux-mips.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6MABIEI022055; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:11:18 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by duck.linux-mips.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p6MABHcB022053; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:11:17 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:11:17 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: David Daney Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] MIPS: Close races in TLB modify handlers. Message-ID: <20110722101117.GA21860@linux-mips.org> References: <1309908886-1624-1-git-send-email-david.daney@cavium.com> <1309908886-1624-2-git-send-email-david.daney@cavium.com> <20110721135525.GB27341@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110721135525.GB27341@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-archive-position: 30670 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Return-Path: X-Keywords: X-UID: 15902 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:55:25PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Looks good and nobody else has complained but backporting to <= 2.6.37 is > gonna be ugly. I either have to resolve huge conflicts or alternatively > backport tons of other tlbex.c patches. The latter is less risky and > time consuming and will provide additional benefit so I'll do it. Just > be prepared for a storm on the linux-git list. It also broke the build for the !defined(CONFIG_MIPS_PGD_C0_CONTEXT) case. Ralf