Re: sort out the flush_icache_range mess

Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-05-11T15:25:58Z

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:14 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:46:17AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:55 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > > none of which really are used by a typical MMU enabled kernel, as a.out can
> > > only be build for alpha and m68k to start with.
> >
> > Quoting myself:
> > "I think it's safe to assume no one still runs a.out binaries on m68k."
> > http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdW+m0Q+j3rsQdMXnrEPm+XB5Y2AQrxW5sD1mZAKgmEqoA@mail.gmail.com
>
> Do you want to drop the:
>
> select HAVE_AOUT if MMU
>
> for m68k then?

If that helps to reduce maintenance, it's fine for me.
That leaves alpha as the sole user?

> Note that we'll still need flush_icache_user_range for m68k with mmu,
> as it also allows binfmt_flat for mmu configs.

Understood.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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