Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:33:52 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: highmem: export kmap_to_page for modules |
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> writes: > > > Some virtio device drivers (9p) need to translate high virtual addresses > > to physical addresses, which are inserted into the virtqueue for > > processing by userspace. > > > > This patch exports the kmap_to_page symbol, so that the affected drivers > > can be compiled as modules. > > Thanks Will! > > I've applied these, and add cc:stable. I'll push them to Linus after a > little time in linux-next.
Cheers Rusty. Andrew's right about this affecting highmem on x86 too (I guess that's what Sasha saw with the 9p memory issues), so stable makes sense.
Will
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