From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:32:50 -0400 From: Kyle McMartin Subject: Re: [patch] mm: rewrite vmap layer Message-ID: <20080820033249.GA19241@phobos.i.cabal.ca> References: <20080818133224.GA5258@wotan.suse.de> <20080818172446.9172ff98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080819073719.GC30521@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080819103952.GE16446@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080819103952.GE16446@wotan.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:39:52PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Second question - will ARMs separate module area still work with this > > code in place (which allocates regions in a different address space > > using __get_vm_area and __vmalloc_area)? > > I hope so. The old APIs are still in place. You will actually get lazy > unmapping, but that should be a transparent change unless you have any > issues with the aliasing. > x86_64 does this anyway, so if that's continuing to work, then it should be fine. r, Kyle -- 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