linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

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Date:	Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:25:13 -0500
From:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

On Feb 10, 2008 4:17 AM, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 12:56 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Feb 9, 2008 5:56 AM, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 11:37 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > i think the worst is over already and i'm reasonably sure that there are
> > > > no more bugs in it - this _is_ a 1:1 patch after all, so in theory the
> > > > worst side-effect should be build breakages due to include file
> > > > spaghetti. The window for this particular breakage was just 256 commits,
> > > > that's OK i think.
> > >
> > > Except for the breakage of all nommu architectures .. they need the
> > > pgtable_t as well due to the pte_fn_t type.
> >
> > so why wasnt this in the original patch ?  why do no-mmu arches have
> > to add the pgtable_t typedefs themselves ?
>
> I do cross-compiles for some architectures but not all. None of the
> nommu architectures are covered (I should change that). I actually did
> cross compile m68knommu for the first versions of the patch, that didn't
> went to well because of the standard m68k compiler. The pte_fn_t change
> has been added after the test compile for m68knommu. This is how is
> slipped through my fingers. The problem wasn't noticed either while the
> patch has been aging in Andrews -mm tree.

i guess my point was more: the pgtable_t typdef is new therefore it
must be defined for every architecture.  your ability to directly
cross-compile and/or test a subset is great, but posting a change that
is know for a fact to break arches you didnt update seems like a bad
idea.  even if you just included the obvious-but-not-compile-tested
changes and included the linux-arch@...r alias instead would have been
better than nothing
-mike
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