linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

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Message-ID: <3b13190d1f0bebd31c2e44a6a936e6d8f8e77892.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:33:34 +1100
From:   Benjamin Gray <bgray@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     "Christopher M. Riedl" <cmr@...escreens.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 11:26 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Though, I wonder if the powerpc tree should
> use mm_alloc() instead of copy_init_mm() as well?  The tip tree
> commit
> says:
> 
>     Instead of duplicating init_mm, allocate a fresh mm. The
> advantage is
>     that mm_alloc() has much simpler dependencies. Additionally it
> makes
>     more conceptual sense, init_mm has no (and must not have) user
> state
>     to duplicate.
> 

Yes, that seems fine. All we need is that the page table isn't shared
and the kernel mappings are the same as in init_mm. It seems mm_alloc()
does this at some point.