From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:10:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [rfc] generic allocator and mspec driver Message-Id: List-Id: References: <16897.9640.160896.31584@jaguar.mkp.net> In-Reply-To: <16897.9640.160896.31584@jaguar.mkp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Tony" = Luck, Tony writes: >> I'm also not thrilled about mem.c being cloned into arch/ia64. Tony> Looking more closely at what you did, things aren't as bad as I Tony> first thought. Strike that comment from the record. Tony, No problem. I really didn't want to do it, but it seems that the -mm series already introduced this for Xen. It was that or 3 zillion #ifdefs ;-( Tony> But the PG_arch_1 dual usage issue remains. Hmmm for some reason I had the impression PG_arch_1 was only used on PPC/PPC64 for icache current status, but it looks like you're right. Darn ;-( Can't we just drop swiotlb and tell people to buy real hardware? ;-))) Ok, I'll invent a new flag! Thanks for the input! Cheers, Jes