From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V3 11/11] arch/powerpc: Add 64TB support
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:52:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txwyhj5e.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120723093951.GB29264@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 06:43:41PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
>> -#define USER_ESID_BITS 16
>> -#define USER_ESID_BITS_1T 4
>> +#define USER_ESID_BITS 18
>> +#define USER_ESID_BITS_1T 6
>
> You also need to change the proto-VSID generation for kernel addresses
> when you do this. If you don't you'll end up with some user processes
> using the same VSIDs as we use for the kernel addresses, meaning that
> those processes won't run very well...
>
Can you explain this more. right now we generate vsid as below
vsid_scramble(ea >> SID_SHIFT, 256M) for kernel
vsid_scramble((context << USER_ESID_BITS) | (ea >> SID_SHIFT), 256M);
for user
what changes are you suggesting ?
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-23 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-09 13:13 [PATCH -V3 0/11] arch/powerpc: Add 64TB support to ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 01/11] arch/powerpc: Use hpt_va to compute virtual address Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 02/11] arch/powerpc: Simplify hpte_decode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 5:41 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 03/11] arch/powerpc: Convert virtual address to vpn Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 22:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-10 6:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 23:06 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-10 6:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 5:54 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 04/11] arch/powerpc: Rename va " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:46 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 6:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 05/11] arch/powerpc: remove masking top 16 bit of va in tlb invalidate Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 1:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-23 3:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 6:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 6:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 06/11] arch/powerpc: Make KERN_VIRT_SIZE not dependend on PGTABLE_RANGE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:57 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 07/11] arch/powerpc: Increase the slice range to 64TB Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 0:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 7:13 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 08/11] arch/powerpc: Make some of the PGTABLE_RANGE dependency explicit Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 0:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 7:29 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 09/11] arch/powerpc: Use 50 bits of VSID in slbmte Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 0:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 8:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 9:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 10:22 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 10/11] arch/powerpc: Use 32bit array for slb cache Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 0:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 8:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 11/11] arch/powerpc: Add 64TB support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 0:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 8:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 9:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 10:22 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2012-07-23 11:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-24 8:37 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-24 9:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-24 19:50 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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