[patch 0/6] s390 page tables on steroids ..

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

Greetings,
this patch series of six patches contains three mm related changes
for the s390 architecture:
i) 1K/2K page tables. With this patch set the cheating with the
   pmd_t on s390 stops. So far a pmd contained 2/4 pointers instead
   of just one which would be correct from an architectural stand
   point. The Trouble with this is that it requires two common code
   changes to make sub-page page tables possible. This features
   is an important requirement for the kvm support on s390.
ii) Support for 4 levels of page tables. The address space limit for
   64 bit processes is now 2^53. That should be enough for anyone ?
iii) Support for different number of page table levels. The limit
   of 2^53 is nice but it slows down the tlb lookup that now has
   to walk 4 instead of 3 levels. Patch #5 make the number of page
   table levels dependent on the highest address a process is using.
   If an mmap is done that raises the limit to the next level, the
   page table gets another level. A downgrade is only done at process
   start, so that 31 bit processes get a two level page table. A
   normal 64 bit process starts with three levels.

The first three patches in the series contain the common code changes
that are needed to get all of this done. I did my best to find all the
place in the different architectures that need to be updated after the
common code changed. Please let me know if you find a place I missed.

The patches are against Linus's git tree.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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