From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx161.postini.com [74.125.245.161]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CF7B6B005D for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:58324 "EHLO linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1903237Ab2IONil (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:38:41 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:38:33 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: thp: Fix the update_mmu_cache() last argument passing in mm/huge_memory.c Message-ID: <20120915133833.GA32398@linux-mips.org> References: <1347382036-18455-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <1347382036-18455-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1347382036-18455-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Will Deacon Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@suse.cz, Catalin Marinas , Steve Capper On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:47:15PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > The update_mmu_cache() takes a pointer (to pte_t by default) as the last > argument but the huge_memory.c passes a pmd_t value. The patch changes > the argument to the pmd_t * pointer. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon > --- > mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +++--- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c > index 57c4b93..4aa6d02 100644 > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c > @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, > entry = pmd_mkyoung(orig_pmd); > entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(entry), vma); > if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vma, haddr, pmd, entry, 1)) > - update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry); > + update_mmu_cache(vma, address, pmd); Documentation/cachetlb.txt will need an update as well. Currently it says: 5) void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep) I would prefer we introduce something like update_mmu_cache_huge_page(vma, address, pmd) and leave the classic update_mmu_cache() unchanged. Ralf -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org