From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table format definitions
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:42:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110124214225.GO24104@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=d0q0Upde3=b4tpu3icOr4XdifcFRvBHuXgsBN@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Too bad about the PAE thing; my condolences.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > This patch introduces the pgtable-3level*.h files with definitions
> > specific to the LPAE page table format (3 levels of page tables).
>
> Seeing as you're shaking up these definitions, what do you think about
> switching from 4level-fixup.h to pgtable-nopud.h / pgtable-nopmd.h headers?
> One day eventually it would be nice to get rid of the fixup mode.
I have patches to do this which I de-queued for the last merge window.
It's not entirely trivial and without problem. You can find the patches
in linux-next now.
I was waiting for the new set of patches from Catalin before going back
and working out the solutions to some of those problems.
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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table format definitions
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:42:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110124214225.GO24104@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=d0q0Upde3=b4tpu3icOr4XdifcFRvBHuXgsBN@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Too bad about the PAE thing; my condolences.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > This patch introduces the pgtable-3level*.h files with definitions
> > specific to the LPAE page table format (3 levels of page tables).
>
> Seeing as you're shaking up these definitions, what do you think about
> switching from 4level-fixup.h to pgtable-nopud.h / pgtable-nopmd.h headers?
> One day eventually it would be nice to get rid of the fixup mode.
I have patches to do this which I de-queued for the last merge window.
It's not entirely trivial and without problem. You can find the patches
in linux-next now.
I was waiting for the new set of patches from Catalin before going back
and working out the solutions to some of those problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-24 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 17:55 [PATCH v4 00/19] ARM: Add support for the Large Physical Address Extensions Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] ARM: Make the argument to virt_to_phys() "const volatile" Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 19:19 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-01-24 19:19 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-01-24 23:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 23:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 10:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 10:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 10:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 10:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 14:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 14:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] ARM: LPAE: Fix early_pte_alloc() assumption about the Linux PTE Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 9:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 9:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] ARM: LPAE: use long long format when printing physical addresses and ptes Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 9:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 9:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] ARM: LPAE: Use PMD_(SHIFT|SIZE|MASK) instead of PGDIR_* Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] ARM: LPAE: Factor out 2-level page table definitions into separate files Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] ARM: LPAE: Add (pte|pmd|pgd|pgprot)val_t type definitions as u32 Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] ARM: LPAE: Use a mask for physical addresses in page table entries Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table format definitions Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 21:26 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-24 21:26 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-24 21:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-01-24 21:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 10:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-25 10:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-21 12:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-21 12:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-21 12:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-21 12:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-21 13:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-21 13:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] ARM: LPAE: Page table maintenance for the 3-level format Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-03 17:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-03 22:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 22:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level page table format Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] ARM: LPAE: Add fault handling support Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] ARM: LPAE: Add context switching support Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 10:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-14 13:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-14 13:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-19 18:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-19 18:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-19 23:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-19 23:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] ARM: LPAE: Add identity mapping support for the 3-level page table format Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] ARM: LPAE: Add SMP " Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long for physical addresses Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 10:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 11:52 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 11:52 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 12:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 12:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 12:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-15 12:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-15 13:37 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 13:37 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 14:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 14:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 15:26 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 15:26 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 15:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 15:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-19 18:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-19 18:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-21 14:36 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-21 14:36 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-21 14:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-21 14:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-21 15:01 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-21 15:01 ` Will Deacon
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] ARM: LPAE: Use generic dma_addr_t type definition Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 10:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-14 13:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-14 13:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-15 14:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 14:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 15:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-15 15:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] ARM: LPAE: mark memory banks with start > ULONG_MAX as highmem Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 10:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] ARM: LPAE: add support for ATAG_MEM64 Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] ARM: LPAE: Add the Kconfig entries Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:56 ` Catalin Marinas
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