Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755068Ab2JWKe2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:34:28 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:56971 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752973Ab2JWKeJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:34:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:33:52 +0100 From: Will Deacon To: Rusty Russell Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "levinsasha928@gmail.com" , Marc Zyngier , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "ericvh@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: highmem: export kmap_to_page for modules Message-ID: <20121023103352.GC20210@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1350651813-8694-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <87objuhxiq.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87objuhxiq.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 925 Lines: 25 On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Will Deacon 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. Andrew's right about this affecting highmem on x86 too (I guess that's what Sasha saw with the 9p memory issues), so stable makes sense. Will -- 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/