From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: levinsasha928@gmail.com, Marc.Zyngier@arm.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, ericvh@gmail.com,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: highmem: export kmap_to_page for modules
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:25:57 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87objuhxiq.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350651813-8694-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> writes:
> Some virtio device drivers (9p) need to translate high virtual addresses
> to physical addresses, which are inserted into the virtqueue for
> processing by userspace.
>
> This patch exports the kmap_to_page symbol, so that the affected drivers
> can be compiled as modules.
Thanks Will!
I've applied these, and add cc:stable. I'll push them to Linus after a
little time in linux-next.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-23 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-19 13:03 [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: highmem: export kmap_to_page for modules Will Deacon
2012-10-19 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] virtio: 9p: correctly pass physical address to userspace for high pages Will Deacon
2012-10-22 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-19 13:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] virtio: force vring descriptors to be allocated from lowmem Will Deacon
2012-10-22 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: highmem: export kmap_to_page for modules Andrew Morton
2012-10-22 23:55 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2012-10-23 10:33 ` Will Deacon
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