linux-kernel - Re: mm: convert vma->vm

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:09:08 +0800
From:	Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: mm: convert vma->vm_flags to 64bit

Hi all,

Did this patch get merged at last, or on this way being merged, or
just dropped ?

Thanks,

Nai

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:10 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> Benjamin, Hugh, I hope to add your S-O-B to this one because you are original author.
> Can I do?
>
> Paul, Russell, This patch modifies arm and sh code a bit. I don't think
> they are risky change. but I'm really glad if you see it.
>
>
> Note: I confirmed x86, power and nommu-arm cross compiler build and
> I've got no warning/error.
>
>
>
> From d5a0d1c265e4caccb9ff5978c615f74019b65453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:00:42 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: convert vma->vm_flags to 64bit
>
> For years, powerpc people repeatedly request us to convert vm_flags
> to 64bit. Because now it has no room to store an addional powerpc
> specific flags.
>
> Here is previous discussion logs.
>
>        http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/1/202
>        http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/27/23
>
> But, unforunately they didn't get merged. This is 3rd trial.
> I've merged previous two posted patches and adapted it for
> latest tree.
>
> Of cource, this patch has no functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
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