On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:36:59 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Page table walker is widely used when you want to traverse page table > tree and do some work for the entries (and pages pointed to by them.) > This is a common operation, and keep the code clean and maintainable > is important. Moreover this patchset introduces caller-specific walk > control function which is helpful for us to newly introduce page table > walker to some other users. Core change comes from patch 1, so please > see it for how it's supposed to work. > > This patchset changes core code in mm/pagewalk.c at first in patch 1 and 2, > and then updates all of current users to make the code cleaner in patch > 3-9. Patch 10 changes the interface of hugetlb_entry(), I put it here to > keep bisectability of the whole patchset. Patch 11 applies page table walker > to a new user queue_pages_range(). Unfortunately this is very incompatible with pending changes in fs/proc/task_mmu.c. Especially Kirill's "mm, thp: change pmd_trans_huge_lock() to return taken lock". Stephen will be away for a couple more weeks so I'll get an mmotm released and hopefully Thierry and Mark will scoop it up(?). Alternatively, http://git.cmpxchg.org/?p=linux-mmots.git;a=summary is up to date. Please take a look, decide what you think we should do? -- 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/
