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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.6.5-aa1 arch updates
Andrea Arcangeli writes:

> I'm unsure about the arch/ppc/mm/pgtable.c part, I mean, ppc is being
> tested heavily, how can it be necessary if nobody ever got an oops yet?
> OTOH your patch certainly cannot hurt and it might be needed after all.
> Maybe I should apply it after all, it'd be nice to get a comment on this
> bit from ppc people who knows tlb.c better to be sure.

We definitely need page->mapping and page->index set on pte and pmd
pages, both on ppc and ppc64. Otherwise the flush_tlb_* functions
won't work properly. Hugh's patch looks good to me (at least as far
as the ppc/ppc64 bits are concerned).

Paul.
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