On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:08:40 -0600
"Tom 'spot' Callaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 01:13 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:32 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >>> I disagree with Tom's patch in that it puts this huge switch()
> >>> statement inline.  The whole point of BTFIXUP_HIGH() is that it
> >>> resolves the call to a single instruction which can be easily
> >>> patched at runtime.
> >>> If it's going to expand to multiple BTFIXUP_HIGH() calls and a
> >>> switch statement, just make it a normal BTFIXUP() to a function
> >>> and place the implementation in sun4c.c and sun4m.c
> >
> >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:22:24PM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> >> How about this instead?
> >> Signed-off-by: Tom 'spot' Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >I'll make sure this gets into 2.6.11-final.
> 
> The second pte_read patch did not really make it into 2.6.11 final (but
> my original patch, which DaveM pointed out as faulty, did). I've made a
> new patch which reverts the huge switch inline statement logic, and uses
> the normal BTFIXUP instead.
> 
> With this patch applied, we should have the preferred pte_read mechanism
> in place for sparc32.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom 'spot' Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Looks great, patch applied.  Thanks Tom.
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