From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:55:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119205557.GO6916@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511192003060.2846@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
>> I think this is a good change regardless of the VM_RESERVED issues.
>> I've been wanting to use this facility in some sparc64 bits in
>> the past, for example. But since it was HUGETLB guarded that
>> wasn't possible.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:15:13PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I've only just found that we have to supply the __GFP_COMP flag to get
> this working. And one of the routes through snd_dma_alloc_pages goes
> to sbus_alloc_consistent. Would you be happy for me to send Andrew a
> patch with sparc and sparc64 sbus_alloc_consistent including __GFP_COMP?
> Ought I to do the same in the sparc and sparc64 pci_alloc_consistent??
I usually end up deferring to Dave on the driver issues, but this time
I can independently agree in an informed manner.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-19 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 19:28 [PATCH 00/11] unpaged: PageReserved VM fixups Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:29 ` [PATCH 01/11] unpaged: get_user_pages VM_RESERVED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:29 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:30 ` [PATCH 02/11] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:41 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-17 20:46 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-11-17 20:51 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-17 23:58 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 7:12 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-11-18 7:59 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 20:59 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-11-17 23:36 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:31 ` [PATCH 03/11] unpaged: sound nopage get_page Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:32 ` [PATCH 04/11] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 20:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-19 20:55 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2005-11-19 21:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 21:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-11-17 19:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 20:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-11-17 23:46 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-17 19:36 ` [PATCH 06/11] unpaged: VM_NONLINEAR VM_RESERVED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:37 ` [PATCH 07/11] unpaged: COW on VM_UNPAGED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 23:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 5:46 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-18 6:45 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 7:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18 7:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 8:04 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 8:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18 8:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18 8:08 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 8:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18 8:36 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 9:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-18 21:08 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-18 19:12 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-17 19:38 ` [PATCH 08/11] unpaged: anon in VM_UNPAGED Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:38 ` [PATCH 09/11] unpaged: ZERO_PAGE " Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 21:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-11-18 19:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:39 ` [PATCH 10/11] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_page Hugh Dickins
2005-11-17 19:40 ` [PATCH 11/11] unpaged: copy_page_range vma Hugh Dickins
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