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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:46:53 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25


* Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:

> > > What about the breakages caused by commit 
> > > a5a19c63f4e55e32dc0bc3d936d7f94793d8b380 (this commit broke the 
> > > defconfig compilation on at least avr32, blackfin, sh, sparc and uml)?
> > 
> > the patch below fixes that.
> 
> Is it safe, or why did Jeremy state in the commit
> "I removed this include to avoid an include cycle"?

that is an x86.git complication alone, and only affects 32-bit PAE: it 
is solved by the uninlining patch (that i've queued up to before the 
asm-generic/tlb.h revert/fix).

	Ingo

------------->
Subject: x86: uninline __pte_free_tlb() and __pmd_free_tlb()
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

this also removes an include file dependency.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c     |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h |   19 ++-----------------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ linux/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -376,3 +376,22 @@ void check_pgt_cache(void)
 {
 	quicklist_trim(0, pgd_dtor, 25, 16);
 }
+
+void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte)
+{
+	paravirt_release_pt(page_to_pfn(pte));
+	tlb_remove_page(tlb, pte);
+}
+
+void __pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+	/* This is called just after the pmd has been detached from
+	   the pgd, which requires a full tlb flush to be recognized
+	   by the CPU.  Rather than incurring multiple tlb flushes
+	   while the address space is being pulled down, make the tlb
+	   gathering machinery do a full flush when we're done. */
+	tlb->fullmm = 1;
+
+	paravirt_release_pd(__pa(pmd) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmd));
+}
Index: linux/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h
+++ linux/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h
@@ -51,11 +51,7 @@ static inline void pte_free(struct page 
 }
 
 
-static inline void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte)
-{
-	paravirt_release_pt(page_to_pfn(pte));
-	tlb_remove_page(tlb, pte);
-}
+extern void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
 /*
@@ -72,18 +68,7 @@ static inline void pmd_free(pmd_t *pmd)
 	free_page((unsigned long)pmd);
 }
 
-static inline void __pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
-{
-	/* This is called just after the pmd has been detached from
-	   the pgd, which requires a full tlb flush to be recognized
-	   by the CPU.  Rather than incurring multiple tlb flushes
-	   while the address space is being pulled down, make the tlb
-	   gathering machinery do a full flush when we're done. */
-	tlb->fullmm = 1;
-
-	paravirt_release_pd(__pa(pmd) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
-	tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmd));
-}
+extern void __pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd);
 
 static inline void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pudp, pmd_t *pmd)
 {
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