From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] Document the use of the arm64 contpte/nonconpte flags.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:42:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006094254.GB30154@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5612C1A3.3040904@arm.com>
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 11:49 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >I recall you asked the question but I didn't have the time to reply. I
> >don't think we need a command line option for this. In the "unlikely"
> >event that something is broken in hardware (or software) and we want to
> >disable the contiguous bit, I would rather have a Kconfig option.
>
> How about both? Other users of early_param_on_off() set the default state
> using kconfig. Is that an acceptable choice, or should I remove the command
> line parameter all together? I sort of expect that in a few years time, the
> whole option goes away once it been in use for a while and there are a
> number of V8 implementations widely available.
If for debugging purposes we could get away with just changing
PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT, I think we can avoid both command line and
Kconfig option. Otherwise only a Kconfig option, I don't see much point
in a command line option (maybe benchmarking).
--
Catalin
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-02 20:47 [PATCHv2 0/7] arm64: Use contiguous PTE bit for the kernel linear mapping Jeremy Linton
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] arm64: Add contiguous page flag shifts and constants Jeremy Linton
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] arm64: PTE/PMD contiguous bit definition Jeremy Linton
2015-10-06 11:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: Macros to check/set/unset the contiguous bit Jeremy Linton
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] arm64: Default kernel pages should be contiguous Jeremy Linton
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 5/7] arm64: Make the kernel page dump utility aware of the CONT bit Jeremy Linton
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 6/7] arm64: Mark kernel page ranges contiguous Jeremy Linton
2015-10-06 11:15 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-10-02 20:47 ` [PATCH 7/7] Document the use of the arm64 contpte/nonconpte flags Jeremy Linton
2015-10-05 16:49 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-10-05 18:29 ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-06 9:42 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2015-10-05 17:03 ` [PATCHv2 0/7] arm64: Use contiguous PTE bit for the kernel linear mapping Catalin Marinas
2015-10-05 18:22 ` Jeremy Linton
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