From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:12:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801031412.26806.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080102204435.GB15460@infradead.org>
> Can we please just nuke CONFIG_HIGHPTE? There's only been a small
> amount of 32bit machines
It's unfortunately a larger amount :/ And for unknown reasons a lot of
people still install 32bit kernels on new perfectly capable 64bit systems
even if they have a lot of memory.
I don't think removing CONFIG_HIGHPTE will be an option any time soon.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 14:30 [patch 0/3] page table changes schwidefsky
2007-11-12 14:30 ` [patch 1/3] add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free schwidefsky
2007-11-12 14:30 ` [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables schwidefsky
2008-01-02 20:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-02 21:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-02 21:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-03 13:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-03 14:01 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-01 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-01 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03 5:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-03 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-04 10:36 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-04 10:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-04 11:02 ` Russell King
2008-02-04 11:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 14:39 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-05 18:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-06 9:06 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-02-06 9:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-06 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-06 15:50 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-12 14:30 ` [patch 3/3] arch_rebalance_pgtables call schwidefsky
2007-11-13 12:33 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-14 9:26 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-14 10:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-14 11:49 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-14 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-15 17:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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