linux-kernel - Re: RFC: switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP

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Message-ID: <20190525173905.GA14769@lst.de>
Date:   Sat, 25 May 2019 19:39:05 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 10:07:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks good to me apart from the question about sparc64 (that you also
> raised) and requesting that interface to be re-named if it is really
> needed.
> 
> Let's just do it (but presumably for 5.3), and any architecture that
> doesn't react to this and gets broken because it wasn't tested can get
> fixed up later when/if they notice.

FYI, my compile testing was very basic and a few issues showed up
from the build bot later on.  I'll keep the branch here uptodate
for now:

	http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/generic-gup

and won't resend until we make progress on the pointer tagging
thing.  I've also got a few follow on patches on top, so they might
be ready by then as well.