Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 05:20:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 05:20:15 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:3603 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 05:20:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] Prefetching file_read_actor() To: akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:30:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel) In-Reply-To: <3C30BC5F.227349E8@zip.com.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Dec 31, 2001 11:28:31 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Looks like you'll need to do a __get_user() against the page to > populate the tlb. We're going to need it in the copy_to_user() > anyway, so the cost is negligible. Please bury such things in arch/cpu specific routines. Most non intel processor hardware isnt that broken. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/