Re: [RESEND:PATCH] [ARM] clearpage: provide our own clear_user_highpage()

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Wed Nov 26 2008 - 20:11:48 EST


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:29:20AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:19:59 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We'd like to pull this trick on parisc as well (another VIPT
> > architecture), so you can add my ack.
>
> If this is going to be used by more than one architecture during the next
> merge window, then maybe the change to include/linux/highmem.h could be
> extracted to its own patch and sent to Linus for inclusion in 2.6.28.
> This way we avoid some conflicts and the architectures can do their
> updates independently.

I plan to use it on VIPT SH also, so getting the higmem.h change in by
itself sooner rather than later would certainly be welcome.
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