Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull rdma.git

From: Doug Ledford
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 13:13:08 EST


On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 09:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 9:29 AM Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> This trivial one-liner is actually incorrect.
>
> It should use 'vmf->address', because the point of the ZERO_PAGE
> argument is to pick the page with the right virtual address alias for
> broken architectures that need those kinds.
>
> I'm actually surprised s390 wants it, usually it's just MIPS that has
> the horribly broken virtual address translation stuff. But it looks
> like for s390 it's at least only a performance issue (ie it causes
> some aliases in L1 that cause cacheline ping-pong rather than anything
> else).

That's what I get for listening to Jason ;-)

Well, since you have just essentially re-written the patch to be
correct, you are now the developer of origin. Do you want to commit the
fix directly or shall I respin it for you to pull?

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