From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Strong Access Ordering page attributes for POWER7 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org In-Reply-To: <20080618223254.966080905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20080618223254.966080905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:39:52 +1000 Message-Id: <1215128392.7960.7.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Mackerras , Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:32 -0500, shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: > Andrew, > > The first patch in this series hits architecture independent code, but the > rest is contained in the powerpc subtree. Could you pick up the first > patch into -mm? I can send the rest of them through the powerpc git tree. > The first patch and the rest of the set are independent and can be merged > in either order. ../.. I was wondering... how do we inform userspace that this is available ? Same question with adding the endian bit on 4xx which I plan to do using your infrastructure... We haven't defined a user-visible feature bit (and besides, we're really getting short on these...). This is becoming a bit of concern btw (the running out of bits). Maybe we should start defining an AT_HWCAP2 for powerpc and get libc updated to pick it up ? Ben. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org