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<title>add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
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<published>2008-02-05T06:29:14+00:00</published>
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(with Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;)

The pgd/pud/pmd/pte page table allocation functions get a mm_struct pointer as
first argument.  The free functions do not get the mm_struct argument.  This
is 1) asymmetrical and 2) to do mm related page table allocations the mm
argument is needed on the free function as well.

[kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com: i386 fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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(with Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;)

The pgd/pud/pmd/pte page table allocation functions get a mm_struct pointer as
first argument.  The free functions do not get the mm_struct argument.  This
is 1) asymmetrical and 2) to do mm related page table allocations the mm
argument is needed on the free function as well.

[kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com: i386 fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros</title>
<updated>2006-09-26T15:48:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave McCracken</name>
<email>dmccr@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-26T06:31:48+00:00</published>
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One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken &lt;dmccr@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken &lt;dmccr@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] mm: ptd_alloc inline and out</title>
<updated>2005-10-30T04:40:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-30T01:16:22+00:00</published>
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It seems odd to me that, whereas pud_alloc and pmd_alloc test inline, only
calling out-of-line __pud_alloc __pmd_alloc if allocation needed,
pte_alloc_map and pte_alloc_kernel are entirely out-of-line.  Though it does
add a little to kernel size, change them to macros testing inline, calling
__pte_alloc or __pte_alloc_kernel to allocate out-of-line.  Mark none of them
as fastcalls, leave that to CONFIG_REGPARM or not.

It also seems more natural for the out-of-line functions to leave the offset
calculation and map to the inline, which has to do it anyway for the common
case.  At least mremap move wants __pte_alloc without _map.

Macros rather than inline functions, certainly to avoid the header file issues
which arise from CONFIG_HIGHPTE needing kmap_types.h, but also in case any
architectures I haven't built would have other such problems.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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It seems odd to me that, whereas pud_alloc and pmd_alloc test inline, only
calling out-of-line __pud_alloc __pmd_alloc if allocation needed,
pte_alloc_map and pte_alloc_kernel are entirely out-of-line.  Though it does
add a little to kernel size, change them to macros testing inline, calling
__pte_alloc or __pte_alloc_kernel to allocate out-of-line.  Mark none of them
as fastcalls, leave that to CONFIG_REGPARM or not.

It also seems more natural for the out-of-line functions to leave the offset
calculation and map to the inline, which has to do it anyway for the common
case.  At least mremap move wants __pte_alloc without _map.

Macros rather than inline functions, certainly to avoid the header file issues
which arise from CONFIG_HIGHPTE needing kmap_types.h, but also in case any
architectures I haven't built would have other such problems.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>Linux-2.6.12-rc2</title>
<updated>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</published>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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