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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/6] x86: Add clear_page_nocache
On 08/09/2012 08:03 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> Add a cache avoiding version of clear_page. Straight forward integer variant
> of the existing 64bit clear_page, for both 32bit and 64bit.
>
> Also add the necessary glue for highmem including a layer that non cache
> coherent architectures that use the virtual address for flushing can
> hook in. This is not needed on x86 of course.
>
> If an architecture wants to provide cache avoiding version of clear_page
> it should to define ARCH_HAS_USER_NOCACHE to 1 and implement
> clear_page_nocache() and clear_user_highpage_nocache().
>

Compile failure:

/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/arch/x86/mm/fault.c: In function
‘clear_user_highpage_nocache’:
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1215:30: error:
‘KM_USER0’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1215:30: note: each
undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1215:2: error: too many
arguments to function ‘kmap_atomic’
In file included from
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/include/linux/pagemap.h:10:0,
from
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/include/linux/mempolicy.h:70,
from
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/include/linux/hugetlb.h:15,
from /home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:14:
/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm/include/linux/highmem.h:66:21: note:
declared here
make[4]: *** [arch/x86/mm/fault.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [arch/x86/mm] Error 2
make[2]: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hpa/kernel/tip.x86-mm'

This happens on *all* my test configurations, including both x86-64 and
i386 allyesconfig. I suspect your patchset base is stale.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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