1. 27 Jul, 2009 2 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 · c7425eb4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
        [CIFS] fix sparse warning
        cifs: fix sb->s_maxbytes so that it casts properly to a signed value
        cifs: disable serverino if server doesn't support it
      c7425eb4
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() · 9e1b32ca
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
      
      Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
      will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
      freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
      
      Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
      virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
      page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
      RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
      entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
      we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.
      
      The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
      too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
      almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
      argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
      Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9e1b32ca
  2. 23 Jul, 2009 1 commit
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