linux-kernel - Re: asm-generic/tlb.h and check_pgt

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:36:29 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: asm-generic/tlb.h and check_pgt_cache()

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:54:25PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Commit a5a19c63f4e55e32dc0bc3d936d7f94793d8b380 from x86.git seems to
> > have broken several architectures, including alpha (fixed by
> > c18d1250c7425dddd2633ce4eaf03d5015e68a0f) and avr32 (not fixed yet).
> > 
> > The problem seems to be that asm-generic/tlb.h references
> > check_pgt_cache(), which is defined in asm/pgalloc.h on most
> > architectures, so removing that include seems like the wrong thing to
> > do. x86, however, defines it in asm/pgtable.h which is apparently
> > included indirectly through other headers.
> > 
> > One way to fix this would be to move the check_pgt_cache() definition
> > over to asm/pgtable.h, but I suspect this would complicate things a lot
> > on architectures that use quicklists since they need the QUICK_*
> > definitions from pgalloc.h in order to implement check_pgt_cache. I
> > have patches that make avr32 use quicklists as well, so I'm a bit
> > hesitant to do this.
> > 
> > Another way to fix it would be to include asm/pgalloc.h elsewhere, e.g.
> > from asm/tlb.h right before including asm-generic/tlb.h. Or perhaps we
> > should move check_pgt_cache() into asm/tlb.h on all architectures and
> > include asm/pgalloc.h as needed?
> > 
> > I don't know how many architectures are currently broken -- if it's
> > only avr32, I can probably come up with a way to fix it on my own. But
> > if there are others, I thought it might be a good idea to coordinate
> > things.
> 
> At least blackfin and m32r suffer from the same compile breakage.

And it seems also uml.

cu
Adrian

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