From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Fix bug in pagetable cache cleanup with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0B8418.4040808@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091124053114.GD2737@yookeroo>
David Gibson wrote:
> Commit a0668cdc154e54bf0c85182e0535eea237d53146 cleans up the handling
> of kmem_caches for allocating various levels of pagetables.
> Unfortunately, it conflicts badly with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT, due to
> the latter's cleverly hidden technique of adding some extra allocation
> space to the top level page directory to store the extra information
> it needs.
>
> Since that extra allocation really doesn't fit into the cleaned up
> page directory allocating scheme, this patch alters
> CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT to instead allocate its struct
> subpage_prot_table as part of the mm_context_t.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Thanks David for the patch. With this patch on top of next-20091123
my test machine boots fine.
Regards
-Sachin
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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-24 5:31 Fix bug in pagetable cache cleanup with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT David Gibson
2009-11-24 6:58 ` Sachin Sant [this message]
2009-11-27 4:56 ` Fix bug in pagetable cache cleanup with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT (v2) David Gibson
2009-12-04 12:02 ` Sachin Sant
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