Re: [next:master 4658/4676] undefined reference to `copy_user_page'

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:12:15 +0000 "Wilcox, Matthew R" <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks like mips *declares* copy_user_page(), but never *defines* an implementation.
> 
> It's documented in Documentation/cachetlb.txt, but it's not (currently) called if the architecture defines its own copy_user_highpage(), so some bitrot has occurred.  ARM is currently fixing this, and MIPS will need to do the same.
> 
> (We can't use copy_user_highpage() in DAX because we don't necessarily have a struct page for 'from'.)

Has there been any progress on this?  It would be unpleasant to merge
DAX into 3.19 and break MIPS and ARM.






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