From: kevink@paralogos.com (Kevin D. Kissell)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: page size change on MIPS
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:13:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3DCF4A.1020509@paralogos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3DCB5A.6060107@caviumnetworks.com>
On 01/24/11 10:56, David Daney wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 07:02 AM, naveen yadav wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> we are using mips32r2 so I want to know which all pages size it can
>> support?
>> When I modify arch/mips/Kconfig. it boot sucessfully on 16KB page
>> size. but hang/not boot crash when change page size to 8KB,32KB and 64
>> KB.
>
> I don't think 8KB and 32KB work on most mips32r2 processors. You
> would have to check the processor manual to be sure.
In principle, one should be able to detect this at run-time, by writing
a sequence of values into the PageMask register and seeing which masks
'stick'.
/K.
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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: page size change on MIPS
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:13:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3DCF4A.1020509@paralogos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3DCB5A.6060107@caviumnetworks.com>
On 01/24/11 10:56, David Daney wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 07:02 AM, naveen yadav wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> we are using mips32r2 so I want to know which all pages size it can
>> support?
>> When I modify arch/mips/Kconfig. it boot sucessfully on 16KB page
>> size. but hang/not boot crash when change page size to 8KB,32KB and 64
>> KB.
>
> I don't think 8KB and 32KB work on most mips32r2 processors. You
> would have to check the processor manual to be sure.
In principle, one should be able to detect this at run-time, by writing
a sequence of values into the PageMask register and seeing which masks
'stick'.
/K.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-24 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 15:02 page size change on MIPS naveen yadav
2011-01-24 15:02 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-24 18:56 ` David Daney
2011-01-24 18:56 ` David Daney
2011-01-24 19:13 ` Kevin D. Kissell [this message]
2011-01-24 19:13 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2011-01-27 14:55 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-27 14:55 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-27 15:18 ` adnan iqbal
2011-01-27 17:44 ` David Daney
2011-01-27 17:44 ` David Daney
2011-01-28 9:18 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-28 9:18 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-28 18:48 ` David Daney
2011-01-28 18:48 ` David Daney
2011-01-30 15:02 ` Himanshu Aggarwal
2011-01-30 15:02 ` Himanshu Aggarwal
2011-01-31 13:08 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-02-04 3:24 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 3:24 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 4:16 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 4:16 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 17:25 ` David Daney
2011-02-04 17:25 ` David Daney
2011-02-05 13:53 ` Mulyadi Santosa
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2011-02-08 8:34 ` Mulyadi Santosa
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