Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:16:42 +0200 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Make vm_get_page_prot arch specific. |
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:10:59PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > With next generation power processor, we are having a new mmu model > [1] that require us to maintain a different linux page table format. > > Inorder to support both current and future ppc64 systems with a single > kernel we need to make sure kernel can select between different page > table format at runtime. With the new MMU (radix MMU) added, we will > have to dynamically switch between different protection map. Hence > override vm_get_page_prot instead of using arch_vm_get_page_prot. We > also drop arch_vm_get_page_prot since only powerpc used it. > > [1] http://ibm.biz/power-isa3 (Needs registration). > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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