Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Export purge_vmap_area_lazy()

2010-03-25 Thread MJ embd
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Some powerpc code needs to ensure that all previous iounmap/vunmap has > really been flushed out of the MMU hash table. Without that, various > hotplug operations may fail when trying to return those pieces to > the hypervisor due to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Export purge_vmap_area_lazy()

2010-03-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> You want vm_unmap_aliases(), which also flushes entries in the > per-cpu vmap allocator (and is already exported for other code > that has similar problems). Ok, I missed that one. I'll update my patch. Thanks. Cheers, Ben. ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Export purge_vmap_area_lazy()

2010-03-24 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:56:31PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Some powerpc code needs to ensure that all previous iounmap/vunmap has > really been flushed out of the MMU hash table. Without that, various > hotplug operations may fail when trying to return those pieces to > the hyperviso