On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Implement lockless get_user_pages_fast for powerpc. Page table existence is guaranteed with RCU, and speculative page references are used to take a reference to the pages without having a prior existence guarantee on them.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

I'm going to merge this, sending it to the list for reference, it was
in -mm for some time , minus some changes/fixes I did to solve conflicts
with the new multiple huge page sizes.

Index: linux-work/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/Kconfig 2008-07-30 13:17:06.000000000 +1000 +++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/Kconfig 2008-07-30 13:27:40.000000000 +1000
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
        bool
        default y

+config HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST
+       def_bool PPC64
+
config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
        def_bool PPC64

what's ppc64 specific here?

- k
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