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Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public

From Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public
Date 2016-01-25 06:50 +0100
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On Thu, 2016-21-01 at 07:35:08 UTC, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> This makes vmalloc_to_phys() public as there will be another user
> (in-kernel VFIO acceleration) for it soon.
> 
> As a part of future little optimization, this changes the helper to call
> vmalloc_to_pfn() instead of vmalloc_to_page() as the size of the
> struct page may not be power-of-two aligned which will make gcc use
> multiply instructions instead of shifts.

You should also mention why you need to export it, presumably because whatever
new user you have in mind can be built as a module.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

cheers

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[PATCH kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-01-21 08:40 +0100
  Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-01-25 06:50 +0100
    Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-01-25 07:30 +0100
    Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> - 2016-01-25 11:10 +0100
      Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-01-27 04:30 +0100

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