From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:55:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406281255.30361.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406270956240.3889-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
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On Sonntag, 27. Juni 2004 15:57, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:10:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > > Also your above arch_free_page needs some more discussion.
> >
> > I think that can disappear. In some cases, it might be handy for the
> > arch to see pages being freed, but right now, I believe that UML has no
> > need for it.
>
> Should be useful for Linux/Xen, Linux/s390 and Linux/iSeries,
> too...
At least for Linux/s390, the underlying architecture interface (DIAG 0x10)
that would let us exploit this is too expensive, so we chose not to do it.
Future machine might give us more flexibility, but using those requires
more than just hooking into free_page.
Arnd <><
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 17:05 Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 BlaisorBlade
2004-06-26 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-27 3:53 ` Jeff Dike
2004-06-27 13:57 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-28 10:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2004-06-29 19:29 ` Uploaded Uml patchset for 2.6.7(was: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8) BlaisorBlade
2004-07-03 18:25 ` [uml-devel] " BlaisorBlade
2004-06-26 20:09 ` Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 Andrew Morton
2004-06-27 3:59 ` Jeff Dike
2004-06-27 6:32 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-27 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-27 8:08 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-27 13:50 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-06-27 23:43 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-28 21:18 ` David Eger
2004-06-27 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <20040628181134.GA21360@havoc.gtf.org>
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407201754460.23496@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
2004-07-22 13:09 ` [PATCH] cirrusfb: update for amiga (zorro) David Eger
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