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| From | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [kernel] powerpc: Make vmalloc_to_phys() public |
| Date | Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:50:02 +0100 |
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| X-Original-Cc | Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
| X-Original-Date | Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:46:03 +1100 (AEDT) |
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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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