From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] dynamic 3-level / 4-level page table
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:33:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428153336.GA25570@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4sur0l$s99mf@fmsmga001.fm.intel.com>
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:09:17PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> --- ./arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S.orig 2006-04-27 19:21:55.000000000 -0700
> +++ ./arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S 2006-04-27 19:46:44.000000000 -0700
> @@ -142,16 +142,16 @@ ENTRY(vhpt_miss)
> (p7) dep r17=r18,r17,3,(PAGE_SHIFT-6) // r17=pgd_offset for region[0-4]
> cmp.eq p7,p6=0,r21 // unused address bits all zeroes?
> #ifdef CONFIG_PGTABLE_4
> - shr.u r28=r22,PUD_SHIFT // shift pud index into position
> + extr.u r28=r22,PUD_SHIFT,11 // get pud index
How well does this work with different page sizes?
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PGTABLE_4
> +int pgtbl3;
> +static __init int setup_pgtbl3(char *s)
> +{
> + pgtbl3 = 1;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("pgtbl3", setup_pgtbl3);
> +#endif
What about taking out CONFIG_PGTABLE_*, having the default be 3, and have the
boot option enable 4 levels? I haven't given this much though yet, but my
first reaction was that would be the correct way to go.
Thanks,
Robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-28 2:09 [rfc] dynamic 3-level / 4-level page table Chen, Kenneth W
2006-04-28 8:57 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2006-04-28 15:33 ` Robin Holt [this message]
2006-04-28 17:16 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-04-28 17:22 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-02 8:28 ` Zoltan Menyhart
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