On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Will Deacon <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Some virtio device drivers (9p) need to translate high virtual addresses
> > to physical addresses, which are inserted into the virtqueue for
> > processing by userspace.
> >
> > This patch exports the kmap_to_page symbol, so that the affected drivers
> > can be compiled as modules.
> 
> Thanks Will!
> 
> I've applied these, and add cc:stable.  I'll push them to Linus after a
> little time in linux-next.

Cheers Rusty. Andrew's right about this affecting highmem on x86 too (I
guess that's what Sasha saw with the 9p memory issues), so stable makes
sense.

Will
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to