linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:22:56 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	kyle@...artin.ca
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@...e.de,
	hch@...radead.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches

Linus, any word on these? I'd really love to get jejb and hch off
my back. :)

cheers, Kyle

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:18AM +0000, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> As discussed on linux-arch@ recently, these fixes are necessary for
> XFS to work on virtually indexed architectures since otherwise vmalloc'd
> pages are not properly flushed from the cache.
> 
> Thanks!
>  Kyle
> 
> The following changes since commit 8bea8672edfca7ec5f661cafb218f1205863b343:
>   Stephen Rothwell (1):
>         mfd: compile fix for twl4030 renaming
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   hera.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6.git coherence
> 
> James Bottomley (6):
>       mm: add coherence API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
>       parisc: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
>       arm: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
>       sh: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
>       block: permit I/O to vmalloc/vmap kernel pages
>       xfs: fix xfs to work with Virtually Indexed architectures
> 
>  Documentation/cachetlb.txt           |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h    |   10 ++++++++++
>  arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h |    8 ++++++++
>  arch/sh/include/asm/cacheflush.h     |    8 ++++++++
>  fs/bio.c                             |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c           |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/highmem.h              |    6 ++++++
>  7 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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