On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 08:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:08:34 -0600 Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > This patchset enhances MTRR checks for the kernel huge I/O mapping, > > > which was enabled by the patchset below: > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/3/589 > > > > > > The following functional changes are made in patch 7/7. > > > - Allow pud_set_huge() and pmd_set_huge() to create a huge page > > > mapping to a range covered by a single MTRR entry of any memory > > > type. > > > - Log a pr_warn() message when a specified PMD map range spans more > > > than a single MTRR entry. Drivers should make a mapping request > > > aligned to a single MTRR entry when the range is covered by MTRRs. > > > > > > > OK, I grabbed these after barely looking at them, to get them a bit of > > runtime testing. > > > > I'll await guidance from the x86 maintainers regarding next steps? > > Could you please send the current version of them over to us if your > testing didn't find any problems? > > I'd like to take a final look and have them cook in the x86 tree as > well for a while and want to preserve your testing effort. This patchset is on top of the following patches in the -mm tree. (Patches apply from the bottom to the top.) 2. Build error fixes and cleanups http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-mm-support-huge-kva-mappings-on-x86-fix.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-vunmap-to-tear-down-huge-kva-mappings-fix.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-ioremap-to-set-up-huge-i-o-mappings-fix.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-add-huge-i-o-map-capability-interfaces-fix.patch 1. Kernel huge I/O mapping support http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-mm-support-huge-kva-mappings-on-x86.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-mm-support-huge-i-o-mapping-capability-i-f.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-vunmap-to-tear-down-huge-kva-mappings.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-ioremap-to-set-up-huge-i-o-mappings.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-add-huge-i-o-map-capability-interfaces.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-__get_vm_area_node-to-use-fls_long.patch Thanks, -Toshi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>