On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 01:14:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Hi, > > At long *long* last a respin of the patches that clean up pmd_get_atomic() and > i386-PAE. I'd nearly forgotten why I did this, but the old posting gave clue > that patch #7 was the whole purpose of me doing these patches. > > Having carried these patches for at least 2 years, they recently hit a rebase > bump against the mg-lru patches, which is what prompted this repost. > > Linus' comment about try_cmpxchg64() (and Uros before him) made me redo those > patches (see patch #10) which resulted in pxx_xchg64(). This in turn led to > killing off set_64bit(). > > The robot doesn't hate on these patches and they boot in kvm (because who still > has i386 hardware). > > Patches also available at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git x86/mm.pae Aside from the whole discussions about TLB invalidates; I mean to commit these patches to tip/x86/mm next week somewhere since they do improve the current situation. Holler if there's objections.
