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* [patch 0/6] s390 page tables on steroids ..
@ 2007-10-25 18:15 Martin Schwidefsky
  2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 1/6] add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free Martin Schwidefsky, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Martin Schwidefsky
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From: Martin Schwidefsky @ 2007-10-25 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mm, linux-arch, linux-s390; +Cc: borntraeger, benh

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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2007-10-25 18:15 [patch 0/6] s390 page tables on steroids Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 1/6] add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free Martin Schwidefsky, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 2/6] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables Martin Schwidefsky, Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 20:47   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-26  7:42     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-26  8:00       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-26  8:08         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-26  8:06     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 3/6] arch_update_pgd call Martin Schwidefsky, Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 20:48   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-25 22:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-26  7:40     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-26  7:59       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-26  8:22         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-26 11:28           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 4/6] s390: 1K/2K page table pages Martin Schwidefsky, Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 5/6] s390: Add four level page tables for CONFIG_64BIT=y Martin Schwidefsky, Martin Schwidefsky
2007-10-25 18:15 ` [patch 6/6] s390: dynamic page tables Martin Schwidefsky, Martin Schwidefsky

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