Re: RFC: switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP

Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-25T17:39:31Z

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 10:07:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks good to me apart from the question about sparc64 (that you also
> raised) and requesting that interface to be re-named if it is really
> needed.
>
> Let's just do it (but presumably for 5.3), and any architecture that
> doesn't react to this and gets broken because it wasn't tested can get
> fixed up later when/if they notice.

FYI, my compile testing was very basic and a few issues showed up
from the build bot later on. I'll keep the branch here uptodate
for now:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/generic-gup

and won't resend until we make progress on the pointer tagging
thing. I've also got a few follow on patches on top, so they might
be ready by then as well.