linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dax: kill uml support

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:45:41 -0700
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax: kill uml support

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:53:20AM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 05:37:40PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > The lack of common transparent-huge-page helpers for UML is becoming
> > increasingly painful for fs/dax.c now that it is growing more pmd
> > functionality. Add UML to the list of unsupported architectures, and
> > clean up no-longer-necessary ifdef as a result.
> > 
> > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> > Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
> > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> 
> Sure, this is fine, assuming UML was the only problem architecture.  I've
> pushed this code to my kernel.org tree and should hopefully hear back from
> 0day shortly.

0day has given the thumbs up:

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>