From: Bob Picco <bpicco@meloft.net>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] sparc64: MM/IRQ patch queue.
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:46:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140927204651.GL4211@zareason> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140927.142812.2031647355756795530.davem@davemloft.net>
Hi,
David Miller wrote: [Sat Sep 27 2014, 02:28:12PM EDT]
>
> Ok Bob, I hope this finally does it.
Me too.
>
> We now move fully to 4 level page tables. :-)
Okay.
>
> 64-bit userland can now take advantage of this increased virtual
> address space as well.
Okay.
>
> The other adjustment here is that we increase the size of the vmalloc
> region, as needed, so that embedded percpu areas should always fit.
Okay.
>
> This has openned the door for a bunch of cleanups. For example, we
> could put the OBP mappings into the kernel page tables and consolidate
> several ktlb code paths. In fact, everything should be serviced from
> the kernel page tables at that point and the only thing to take care
> with is to properly use the 4MB kernel TSB rather than the 8Kb kernel
> TSB when handling PAGE_OFFSET linear area misses when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> is disabled.
Okay.
>
> Anyways, let me know how these work for you. I'll be running tests
> on my T4-2 all weekend.
I'll commence with T5-2 which is local to me.
M7-4 came up with an older kernel of mine but with hardware faults.
thanx!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-27 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-27 18:28 [PATCH v2 0/8] sparc64: MM/IRQ patch queue David Miller
2014-09-27 20:46 ` Bob Picco [this message]
2014-09-28 4:35 ` David Miller
2014-09-29 20:15 ` David Miller
2014-09-29 21:03 ` Bob Picco
2014-09-29 21:33 ` David Miller
2014-09-29 22:35 ` Bob Picco
2014-09-30 1:52 ` David Miller
2014-09-30 1:56 ` David Miller
2014-09-30 1:57 ` David Miller
2014-09-30 2:16 ` David Miller
2014-09-30 10:36 ` Bob Picco
2014-09-30 13:17 ` Bob Picco
2014-09-30 13:53 ` Bob Picco
2014-09-30 18:55 ` David Miller
2014-09-30 20:58 ` Bob Picco
2014-09-30 22:28 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-01 2:29 ` David Miller
2014-10-01 2:57 ` David Miller
2014-10-01 11:51 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-01 14:29 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-01 20:42 ` David Miller
2014-10-01 20:44 ` David Miller
2014-10-01 21:51 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-02 14:24 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-03 22:53 ` David Miller
2014-10-04 19:12 ` David Miller
2014-10-04 20:00 ` David Miller
2014-10-05 13:51 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-05 13:58 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-13 3:53 ` David Miller
2014-10-15 2:40 ` David Miller
2014-10-16 12:36 ` Bob Picco
2014-10-16 16:12 ` David Miller
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