From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
Imre Kaloz <kaloz@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: pass the number of PTEs to move_pte()
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:12:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <auHI2vYFjpKk_0wJ@gremlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dac5fd3-c2a6-4e1a-98fa-0fe1936b269d@kernel.org>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 11:02:17AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 10/28/26 10:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > I don't think it's fair to make the kernel exclusive to very recent hardware only.
Nobody's making the kernel 'exclusive' to 'recent' hardware.
It's about overburdened maintainers having to deal with museum-piece hardware at
the cost of literally _everybody else_ who uses linux.
Use an older or downstream kernel - problem solved ;)
>
> "Very recent" find the mistake.
Exactly...
>
> (sorry, I'm unusually grumpy today)
Justifiable ;)
--
Cheers, Lorenzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 23:33 [PATCH v3 0/4] sparc64: D-cache alias flushing fixes Imre Kaloz
2026-10-21 23:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] sparc64: skip the trap block in xcall_deliver() when there is no target Imre Kaloz
2026-10-21 23:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] sparc64: flush only the aliased page, not its whole folio Imre Kaloz
2026-10-21 23:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] sparc64: flush vmalloc ranges from the D-cache on map and unmap Imre Kaloz
2026-10-21 23:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: pass the number of PTEs to move_pte() Imre Kaloz
2026-10-23 17:17 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-10-23 20:53 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 21:26 ` Imre Kaloz
2026-10-28 8:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:16 ` Imre Kaloz
2026-10-28 9:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:58 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-10-28 10:02 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 10:12 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-10-28 10:17 ` Imre Kaloz
2026-10-28 13:57 ` Andreas Larsson
2026-10-28 13:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 16:26 ` Imre Kaloz
2026-10-28 14:00 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-22 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] sparc64: D-cache alias flushing fixes Stian Halseth
2026-10-23 9:22 ` Andreas Larsson
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