linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:59:08 -0500
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...cali.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()


On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 09:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> CC'ing Linus here. How do you want to proceed with that merge ?  
>>> (IE. so
>>> far nobody objected to the patch itself)
>>
>> Maybe you can put it as a separate branch in -next, and have it  
>> merged
>> before the stuff that depends on it, and then just sending it to me  
>> (as a
>> git branch or patch or whatever) in the first day of the merge  
>> window?
>
> Hrm... my powerpc-next branch will contain stuff that depend on it, so
> I'll probably have to pull it in though, unless I tell all my
> sub-maintainers to also pull from that other branch first :-)

Can you not cherry pick it into powerpc-next to 'pull it through'?

- k
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