linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] Avoid synchronous TLB invalidation for intermediate page-table entries on arm64

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Date:   Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:04:12 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Avoid synchronous TLB invalidation for intermediate
 page-table entries on arm64

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 6:01 PM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Well it would help if powerpc say wanted to start using them without a
> merge cycle lag. Not a huge issue because powerpc already does
> reasonably well here and there's other work that can be done.

Sure. If somebody wants to send the generic changes I can just take
them directly to make it easier for people to work on this.

               Linus