From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:55:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120185541.GA28024@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47939787.3050707@zytor.com>
> >There are various loaders (kexec, elilo, ...) that skip the 16bit code
> >and jump directly to 32bit head.S. So in theory those could hit it.
> >But still having the loop only is probably fine.
> >
>
> It's probably just as well, since we don't really know how to get a
> message out in such an environment anyway...
It would be robably possible to extend the 32bit protocol to some
way to error out in such a case. On the other hand I'm not sure it's really
worth the considerable work to implement and debug such an addition.
> >>variant of make_pte now though.
> >
> >The 32bit cast still feels unclean. After all the PTE is not 32bit.
>
> No, but (pte_t *) is 32 bits. To be more "Linuxy" it probably should be
> (long) or (unsigned long) though.
That's not 32bit either.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-19 16:08 [PATCH] x86/voyager: Switch voyager memory detection to early_ioremap Ian Campbell
2008-01-19 16:08 ` [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format Ian Campbell
2008-01-19 23:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-19 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-20 16:44 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-20 17:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-20 18:55 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-20 18:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 10:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-20 18:30 ` Mika Penttilä
2008-01-21 21:23 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-21 21:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-21 21:46 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-22 2:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 17:36 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-22 18:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 19:48 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-22 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 20:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 20:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 20:52 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-22 21:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 22:21 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-22 21:00 ` [PATCH] x86: make nx_enabled conditional on CONFIG_X86_PAE Harvey Harrison
2008-01-22 21:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 21:35 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-22 21:07 ` Harvey Harrison
[not found] ` <p73odbdlyiu.fsf@crumb.suse.de>
2008-01-23 11:21 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-23 20:52 ` [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format Ian Campbell
2008-01-24 1:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24 9:39 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-24 22:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-24 22:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-24 22:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-24 23:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-24 23:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 0:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 0:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 0:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 2:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-01-25 4:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 11:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-01-24 23:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 0:20 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-25 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 0:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-25 1:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 2:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-01-25 2:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 7:49 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-25 22:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-25 22:11 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-28 15:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 15:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-28 19:40 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-28 19:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 20:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 20:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-28 20:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-28 20:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 20:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-28 20:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 20:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-28 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 22:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-28 16:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 17:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-01 13:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-01 14:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-01 14:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-01 22:55 ` Len Brown
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