On 2022-01-25 18:44:13 [-0800], Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:21:05 +0200 Maor Gottlieb <maorg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The cited commits replaced preemptible with pagefault_disabled and > > flush_kernel_dcache_page with flush_dcache_page respectively, hence > > need to update the corresponding defines in the test. > > What are the effects of this change? Does it fix compilation > issues? Runtime issues? If so, what are those issues? There is this runtime test tools/testing/scatterlist/main.c and without the changes to tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h it simply does not compile. Since it is userland, the kernel details like preemptible() or pagefault_disabled() don't matter much, it has just to compile and run. Sebastian
