From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 00/28] 5-level paging Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 10:16:07 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20161208162150.148763-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20161208162150.148763-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrew Morton , the arch/x86 maintainers , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Arnd Bergmann , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > This patchset is still very early. There are a number of things missing > that we have to do before asking anyone to merge it (listed below). > It would be great if folks can start testing applications now (in QEMU) to > look for breakage. > Any early comments on the design or the patches would be appreciated as > well. Looks ok to me. Starting off with a compile-time config option seems fine. I do think that the x86 cpuid part should (patch 15) should be the first patch, so that we see "la57" as a capability in /proc/cpuinfo whether it's being enabled or not? We should merge that part regardless of any mm patches, I think. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f194.google.com ([209.85.223.194]:35980 "EHLO mail-io0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbcLHSQI (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:16:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161208162150.148763-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> References: <20161208162150.148763-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 10:16:07 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 00/28] 5-level paging Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrew Morton , the arch/x86 maintainers , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Arnd Bergmann , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-ID: <20161208181607.WrkIeTQtioCpF8rKtDHlM3kRohZjQ_CzdrjMxFFhnN0@z> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > This patchset is still very early. There are a number of things missing > that we have to do before asking anyone to merge it (listed below). > It would be great if folks can start testing applications now (in QEMU) to > look for breakage. > Any early comments on the design or the patches would be appreciated as > well. Looks ok to me. Starting off with a compile-time config option seems fine. I do think that the x86 cpuid part should (patch 15) should be the first patch, so that we see "la57" as a capability in /proc/cpuinfo whether it's being enabled or not? We should merge that part regardless of any mm patches, I think. Linus