Re: [PATCH] perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 03:33:53 EST


On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:13:21 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:23:59 +0200
>
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> OK, so I rewrote it a few more times, does the below make everybody
> >> feel warm and fuzzy?
> >
> > Yeah, looks perfect to me - applied to tip:perf/urgent, thanks Peter!
> >
> > Dave, could you please test it on Sparc too? The Git coordinates are at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perf/urgent
>
> Works fine here, I forced the vmalloc stuff on using the debug
> option. Once your stuff goes in I'll add the select statement
> to arch/sparc/Kconfig
>
> Andrew also needs to marge the vmalloc_user() patch. I almost
> forgot that to apply to my tree when testing :-)

I seem to have lost it. We might as well keep the two patches together
so can you please handle it?

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