From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m67LNQc6029350 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:23:26 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m67LNGA0214606 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:23:16 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m67LNFeu025676 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:23:16 -0400 Message-ID: <48728942.6050007@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:23:14 -0500 From: Joel Schopp MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Strong Access Ordering page attributes for POWER7 References: <20080618223254.966080905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1215128392.7960.7.camel@pasglop> <1215439540.16098.15.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1215439540.16098.15.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Mackerras , Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-ID: >> 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 ? >> > > Joel, > Any thoughts? Is it a required or optional feature of the 2.06 architecture spec? If it's required you could just use that. It doesn't solve the problem more generically if other archs decide to implement it though. -- 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