linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: don't select ARCH_HAS_PTE

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Date:   Mon,  1 Jul 2019 17:18:18 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: don't select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL

MIPS doesn't really have a proper pte_special implementation, just
stubs.  It turns out they were not enough to make get_user_pages_fast
work, so drop the select.  This means get_user_pages_fast won't
actually use the fast path for non-hugepage mappings, so someone who
actually knows about mips page table management should look into
adding real pte_special support.

Fixes: eb9488e58bbc ("MIPS: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index b1e42f0e4ed0..7957d3457156 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ config MIPS
 	select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE if MIPS_FP_SUPPORT
 	select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
 	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
-	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
 	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
 	select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
-- 
2.20.1