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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:32:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080609013204.7c291b68.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605094826.128415000@nick.local0.net>

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:43:07 +1000 npiggin@suse.de wrote:

> 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.
> 

arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c: In function `get_user_pages_fast':
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:156: error: `SLICE_LOW_TOP' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:156: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:156: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:178: error: implicit declaration of function `get_slice_psize'
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:178: error: `mmu_huge_psize' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:182: error: implicit declaration of function `huge_pte_offset'
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c:182: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

with

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt

I don't immediately know why - adding asm/page.h to gup.c doesn't help.
I'm suspecting a recursive include problem somewhere.

I'll drop it, sorry - too much other stuff to fix over here.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-09  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05  9:43 [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 1/7] mm: readahead scan lockless npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 2/7] radix-tree: add gang_lookup_slot, gang_lookup_slot_tag npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 3/7] mm: speculative page references npiggin
2008-06-06 14:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-06 16:26     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 16:27     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-09  4:48   ` Tim Pepper
2008-06-10 19:08   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  3:19     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 4/7] mm: lockless pagecache npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 5/7] mm: spinlock tree_lock npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 6/7] powerpc: implement pte_special npiggin
2008-06-06  4:04   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast npiggin
2008-06-09  8:32   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-10  3:15     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-10 19:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  3:18     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  4:40       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:41         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:49           ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  6:06             ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11  6:24               ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  6:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11 23:20               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:47         ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-05 11:53 ` [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup Nick Piggin
2008-06-05 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-06  0:08   ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 21:32 ` Peter Zijlstra

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