From: "Vorobiev Dmitri" Subject: Re: ext4dev build failure on mips: "empty_zero_page" undefined Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:34:10 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <38408.84.249.59.97.1212701650.squirrel@webmail.movial.fi> References: <20080512130604.GA15008@deprecation.cyrius.com> <90edad820805120654n50f7a00cm3c7b4a4f9346d5ea@mail.gmail.com> <20080512143426.GB7029@mit.edu> <90edad820805120746l61e67362vbd177d63e8b05dc8@mail.gmail.com> <20080513045028.GC22226@linux-mips.org> <20080528070637.GA10393@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20080605111148.GA4483@deprecation.cyrius.com> <1212664977.4840.6.camel@sd048.hel.movial.fi> <20080605183854.GN25477@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Dmitri Vorobiev" , "Martin Michlmayr" , "Ralf Baechle" , "Dmitri Vorobiev" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Tso" Return-path: Received: from smtp.movial.fi ([62.236.91.34]:59752 "EHLO smtp.movial.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987AbYFEVeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:34:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080605183854.GN25477@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Theodore Tso wrote: > > If you really insist I suppose we could have a MIPS specific patch > where we allocate a 4k page and zero it, so we can use it from our > kernel code because you don't want to export and make available the > ZERO_PAGE that gets used by the rest of the kernel, but that seems > awfully silly, and would be a waste of 4k of memory..... Someone from > MIPS land would have to test it, as well, as I dont think any of the > ext4 developers have access to a MIPS platform. Ted, Ralf seems to be unwilling to accept the ZERO_PAGE() export. If you send the MIPS-specific patch, I can do the testing for you as I have a MIPS Malta board at my disposal. Thanks, Dmitri