Re: [PATCH] long format VHPT

Arun Sharma
2003-09-30T18:25:36Z

Darren Williams wrote:
> Hi Arun
>
> These are useful suggestions and we will need a solution that covers all
> possible scenarios for the page table walker, I have just begun looking
> at the Ia64 code and so my responses may be slow until I get my head
> around it. One question I do have is that if we are initialising vhpt
> in do_boot_cpu() are we only talking about SMP machines here, what
> about UNI processor machines?

Yes, do_boot_cpu() doesn't work on UP. I'm still looking into allocating the VHPT on secondary CPUs rather than the boot CPU.

-Arun