From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:28:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH V3 0/6] RCU get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast In-Reply-To: <20140919182808.GA22622@linaro.org> References: <1409237107-24228-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> <20140828152320.GN22580@arm.com> <20140908090626.GA14634@linaro.org> <20140919182808.GA22622@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20140922092838.GC25809@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 07:28:09PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > Apologies for being a pest, but we're really keen to get this into 3.18, > as it fixes a THP problem with arm/arm64. > > I need mm folk to either ack or flame the first patch in the series in > order to proceed. (All the patches in the series have been > acked/reviewed, but not by any mm folk.): > [PATCH V3 1/6] mm: Introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast. > > If it puts people's minds at rest regarding the testing... > On top of the ltp tests, and futex tests, we also ran these patches on > the arm64 Debian buildd's. With THP set to always, just under 8000 > Debian packages have been built (and unit tested) without any kernel > issues for arm64. Yes, please. It would be great if somebody can take these into an -mm tree and/or provide an ack so that we can queue them via the arm64 tree instead. Will