Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:23:27 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | [PATCH 00/17] mm: mmu_gather rework |
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Rework the existing mmu_gather infrastructure.
The direct purpose of these patches was to allow preemptible mmu_gather, but even without that I think these patches provide an improvement to the status quo.
The first patch is a fix to the tile architecture, the subsequent 9 patches rework the mmu_gather infrastructure. For review purpose I've split them into generic and per-arch patches with the last of those a generic cleanup.
For the final commit I would provide a roll-up of these patches so as not to wreck bisectability of non generic archs.
The next patch provides generic RCU page-table freeing, and the follow up is a patch converting s390 to use this. I've also got 4 patches from DaveM lined up (not included in this series) that uses this to implement gup_fast() for sparc64.
Then there is one patch that extends the generic mmu_gather batching.
Finally there are 4 patches that convert various architectures over to asm-generic/tlb.h, these are compile tested only and basically RFC.
After this only um and s390 are left -- um should be straight forward, s390 wants a bit more, but more on that in another email.
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