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From: catalin.marinas@arm•com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] Add various hugetlb page table fix
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:09:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207150900.GK3351@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMgcG+rtHynsSe71onpL-Mp2dLq6Rv-7hLmj2noy7zx-QtTuQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:46:50PM +0000, carson bill wrote:
> 2012/2/7, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>:
> > But if you avoid setting L_PTE_HPAGE_*, than we don't need the
> > masking for pte_pfn. In which case, we don't need to differentiate
> > between a normal and a huge pte in pte_pfn(), so no need for
> > L_PTE_HUGEPAGE. The set_huge_pte_at() function is only called with a
> > huge pte, so it doesn't need to check the L_PTE_HUGEPAGE bit either.
> 
> I understood what you mean now, and the original design is almost like
> you said.  But the consequences of eliminating L_PTE_HUGEPAGE as well
> as L_PTE_HPAGE_* only leave us with huge page size fixed at build
> time, I mean boot time huge page size configuration feature like X86
> will NOT be feasible anymore!

Yes it will :). Just store the page size in some variable that you check
at run-time. We won't support mixed huge page sizes though.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30  7:57 [RFC] ARM hugetlb support bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add various hugetlb arm high level hooks bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-02-06 17:07   ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-07  2:00     ` bill4carson
2012-02-07 11:54       ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-07 12:15   ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-07 12:57     ` carson bill
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add various hugetlb page table fix bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-31  9:57   ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31  9:58   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-31 12:25     ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-01  3:10       ` bill4carson
2012-02-06 16:26         ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-07  1:42           ` bill4carson
2012-02-07 11:50             ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-07 13:24               ` carson bill
2012-02-07 14:11                 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-07 14:46                   ` carson bill
2012-02-07 15:09                     ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2012-02-07 15:41                       ` carson bill
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 3/7] Introduce set_hugepte_ext api for huge page hardware page table setup bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 4/7] Store huge page linux pte in mm_struct bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-31  9:37   ` Catalin Marinas
2012-01-31 10:01   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-01  5:45     ` bill4carson
2012-02-06  2:04       ` bill4carson
2012-02-06 10:29         ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-06 14:40           ` carson bill
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 5/7] Using do_page_fault for section fault handling bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 6/7] Add hugetlb Kconfig option bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-30  7:57 ` [PATCH 7/7] Minor compiling fix bill4carson at gmail.com
2012-01-31  9:29 ` [RFC] ARM hugetlb support Catalin Marinas
2012-02-01  1:56   ` bill4carson
2012-02-02 14:38     ` Catalin Marinas
2012-02-03  1:41       ` bill4carson
2012-02-06 16:29         ` Catalin Marinas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-13  9:44 [RFC-PATCH V2] " Bill Carson
2012-02-13  9:44 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add various hugetlb page table fix Bill Carson
2012-03-01 10:13   ` Catalin Marinas

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