From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Implementing HUGEPAGE on MPC 8xx
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:15:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465431308.22191.101.camel@buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2980a9d-4795-ae1b-16dd-ba244d559a31@c-s.fr>
On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 09:03 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> In see in the current ppc kernel that for PPC32, SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
> is selected only if we have PHYS_64BIT.
> What is the reason for only implementing HUGETLBFS with 64 bits phys
> addresses ?
That's not for PPC32 in general -- it's for 32-bit FSL Book E. The reason for
the limitation is that there are separate TLB miss handlers depending on
whether PHYS_64BIT is enabled, and we didn't want to have to implement hugetlb
support in both of them unless there was actual demand for it.
> From your point of view, what would be the best approach to extend
> support of HUGE PAGES to PPC_8xx ?
> Would the good starting point be to implement a hugepagetlb-8xx.c from
> hugepagetlb-book3e.c ?
Yes.
-Scott
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-09 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-08 7:03 [RFC] Implementing HUGEPAGE on MPC 8xx Christophe Leroy
2016-06-08 22:46 ` Dan Malek
2016-06-09 0:15 ` Scott Wood [this message]
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