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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:44:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010421154455.C7576@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)

Hi,

For ARM, I require pgd_alloc to take a struct mm_struct argument (so the
pgd_alloc prototype becomes "pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *)".

Why?  Because ARM must always have the first virtual page allocated and
present - its used for the hardware vectors, and in order to allocate
the page table for this page, I need a mm_struct (see the pte_alloc
prototype and associated code in mm/memory.c).

There are various options here:

1. Either I can fix up all architectures, and send a patch to this list, or
2. You can fix it up, send me a patch, and I'll collate them and send the
   whole to Linus.
3. I can send a patch to Alan, and you can send your individual patches again
   to Alan, and Alan can send the whole patch to Linus.

Its up to you how this is done.

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-21 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-21 14:44 Russell King [this message]
2001-04-23  4:44 ` All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc() David S. Miller
2001-04-23  4:54   ` Miles Lane
2001-04-23  4:59   ` Miles Lane
2001-04-23  9:31     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 15:32       ` Miles Lane
2001-04-23  9:27   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 12:32   ` Russell King

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