Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755335AbZCFOuR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:50:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754113AbZCFOuD (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:50:03 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43361 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753450AbZCFOuC (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:50:02 -0500 Message-ID: <49B137F7.9040207@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:49:27 -0500 From: Masami Hiramatsu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Mathieu Desnoyers , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Steven Rostedt , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Rusty Russell , "H. Peter Anvin" , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make text_poke() atomic using fixmap References: <20090302222254.GA31962@elte.hu> <49AC63FA.70801@redhat.com> <20090302230915.GA11626@elte.hu> <49AC6DEA.2050304@redhat.com> <20090302234910.GA17956@elte.hu> <49AC7453.8020307@redhat.com> <20090303002214.GA4147@elte.hu> <49AC7A5F.7080009@redhat.com> <49AD5B55.10002@redhat.com> <20090305103852.GD32407@elte.hu> <20090306140612.GA8566@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090306140612.GA8566@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1381 Lines: 45 Hi Ingo, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> * Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> >>> Hi Ingo, >>> >>> Here is the patch which uses fixmaps instead of vmap in >>> text_poke(). This made the code much simpler than I thought >>> :). >> Looks good to me at a quick glance albeit Linus had second >> thoughts about using fixmaps for this in the past. But with >> delayed-flush for vmaps i think fixmaps are again the simpler >> and more robust - albeit more limited - choice ... >> >> In any case, the x86 tree already unified fixmap.h so could >> you please resend the whole series as a 0/3, 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 >> thing against tip:master, starting a new thread on lkml? (this >> thread is already way too deep) > > Ping? I think there's agreement and it would be nice to fix this > in .30. Looks too complex for .29 - maybe backportable to .29.1 > if it stays problem-free in testing. Sorry for later, I'll post it as soon as possible. > > Ingo -- Masami Hiramatsu Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc. Software Solutions Division e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com -- 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/