From: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@gmx.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fix powerpc linux-next break on zsmalloc
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:25:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3A6ECD.7030504@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3A480C.9090407@gmx.de>
On 02/14/2012 05:39 AM, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> Am 14.02.2012 12:22, schrieb Marc Dietrich:
>> Am 13.02.2012 15:47, schrieb Seth Jennings:
>>> linux/vmalloc.h added to zsmalloc-main.c to resolve implicit
>>> declaration errors.
>>>
>>> X86 dependency added to zsmalloc and dependent drivers zcache and zram.
>>>
>>> This X86 only requirement is not ideal. Working to find portable
>>> functions for __flush_tlb_one and set_pte.
>>
>> sorry, zcache/zram works fine one ARM here. Why not depend on !POWERPC?
>
> ups, sorry again, I tested an older version only. flush_tlb_one and
> set_pte is only used with the new allocator as it seems.
Hey Marc,
I haven't forgotten about you. I know that zcache (and therefore) zsmalloc
must work on ARM to be viable since there are known ARM users. When we have
a solution, I'll be contacting you to test it on ARM :)
--
Seth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-14 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-13 14:47 [PATCH] staging: fix powerpc linux-next break on zsmalloc Seth Jennings
2012-02-14 11:22 ` Marc Dietrich
2012-02-14 11:39 ` Marc Dietrich
2012-02-14 14:25 ` Seth Jennings [this message]
2012-02-14 14:35 ` Seth Jennings
2012-02-14 16:21 ` Marc Dietrich
2012-03-12 14:34 ` Seth Jennings
2012-03-12 20:26 ` Marc Dietrich
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