From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
linux@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, will.deacon@arm.com,
gary.robertson@linaro.org, christoffer.dall@linaro.org,
anders.roxell@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] RCU get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:53:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140626075334.GA12054@laptop.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140625134235.4f32768faa1a4380a62458ff@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:42:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:40:18 +0100 Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > This series implements general forms of get_user_pages_fast and
> > __get_user_pages_fast and activates them for arm and arm64.
>
> Why not x86?
>
> I think I might have already asked this. If so, it's your fault for
> not updating the changelog ;)
Because x86 doesn't do RCU freed page tables :-) Also because i386 PAE
has magic (although one might expect ARM PAE -- or whatever they called
it -- to need similar magic).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-26 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-25 15:40 [PATCH 0/6] RCU get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: Introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] arm: mm: Introduce special ptes for LPAE Steve Capper
2014-06-27 12:17 ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:17 ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:44 ` Steve Capper
2014-06-27 12:44 ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm64: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm64: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 16:50 ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-25 16:50 ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-26 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-26 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-27 12:20 ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:20 ` Will Deacon
2014-06-25 20:42 ` [PATCH 0/6] RCU get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast Andrew Morton
2014-06-25 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-26 7:53 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-08-20 14:56 ` Dann Frazier
2014-08-20 15:11 ` Steve Capper
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