Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use objcopy to generate asm-offsets

Vegard Nossum writes: > In order to give assembly code access to C structs without having to > hardcore member offsets, the kernel compiles a C source file listing all > the structs and offsets that are needed in assembly code. Using some > C preprocessor trickery and a sed script, the compiled as

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Add optional close() to struct vm_special_mapping

Linus Torvalds writes: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 13:15, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> Ok, I did a quick hack-job to remove that disgusting >> install_special_mapping() legacy case. >> >> With this [..] > > I forgot to actually attach that "this". Here it is. For real, this time. > >

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] arch: simplify architecture specific page size configuration

.h| 10 +- > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 31 ++- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- > scripts/gdb/linux/constants.py.in | 2 +- > scripts/gdb/linux/mm.py | 2 +- > 10 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) cheers

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arch: consolidate existing CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_*KB definitions

Hi Arnd, Arnd Bergmann writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > These four architectures define the same Kconfig symbols for configuring > the page size. Move the logic into a common place where it can be shared > with all other architectures. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > --- > Changes from v1:

Re: [PATCH 4/4] vdso: avoid including asm/page.h

Christophe Leroy writes: > Le 26/02/2024 à 17:14, Arnd Bergmann a écrit : >> From: Arnd Bergmann >> >> The recent change to the vdso_data_store broke building compat VDSO >> on at least arm64 because it includes headers outside of the include/vdso/ >> namespace: > > I understand that powerpc64 a

Re: (subset) [PATCH 0/7] arch/*: config: Remove ReiserFS from defconfig

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:56:09 +, Peter Lafreniere wrote: > ReiserFS has been considered deprecated for 19 months since commit > eb103a51640e ("reiserfs: Deprecate reiserfs"). However, there are > several architectures that still build it into their defconfig kernels. > > As ReiserFS will be rem

Re: [PATCH v6 13/41] mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA

arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 4 ++-- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/pte-8xx.h | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgtable.h | 2 +- Looks like you discovered the joys of ppc's at-least 5 diff

Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 17/26] powerpc/mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on 32bit book3s

/ MSB 29. There seems to be no real reason why that bit cannot > be used, and reusing it avoids having to steal one bit from the swap > offset. > > While at it, mask the type in __swp_entry(). > > Cc: Michael Ellerman > Cc: Nicholas Piggin > Cc: Christophe Leroy > Signed

Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM

- > arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h| 2 -- > arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h | 1 - > arch/mips/include/asm/page.h | 13 - > arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h | 9 - > arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h | 2 -- > arch/parisc/include/asm/page

Re: [PATCH v8 27/31] Kbuild: add Rust support

Masahiro Yamada writes: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 10:53 AM Miguel Ojeda wrote: >> >> Having all the new files in place, we now enable Rust support >> in the build system, including `Kconfig` entries related to Rust, >> the Rust configuration printer, the target specification >> generation script,

Re: [PATCH 08/30] powerpc/setup: Refactor/untangle panic notifiers

"Guilherme G. Piccoli" writes: > On 05/05/2022 15:55, Hari Bathini wrote: >> [...] >> The change looks good. I have tested it on an LPAR (ppc64). >> >> Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini >> > > Hi Michael. do you think it's possible to add this one to powerpc/next > (or something like that), or do you