From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bob.picco@oracle.com,
nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com, vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com,
julian.calaby@gmail.com, adam.buchbinder@gmail.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mhocko@suse.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/14] sparc64: load shared id into context register 1
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:17:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161221181751.GE3311@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62091365-2797-ed99-847f-7281f4666633@oracle.com>
Hi Mike.
> Or, perhaps we only enable
> the shared context ID feature on processors which have the ability to work
> around the backwards compatibility feature.
Start out like this, and then see if it is really needed with the older processors.
This should keep the code logic simpler - which is always good for this complicated stuff.
Sam
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-16 18:35 [RFC PATCH 00/14] sparc64 shared context/TLB support Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 01/14] sparc64: placeholder for needed mmu shared context patching Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 02/14] sparc64: add new fields to mmu context for shared context support Mike Kravetz
2016-12-17 7:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-18 23:33 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-21 18:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-17 7:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-18 23:45 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-21 18:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 03/14] sparc64: routines for basic mmu shared context structure management Mike Kravetz
2016-12-18 3:07 ` David Miller
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 04/14] sparc64: load shared id into context register 1 Mike Kravetz
2016-12-17 7:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-19 0:22 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-21 18:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-18 3:14 ` David Miller
2016-12-19 0:06 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-20 18:33 ` David Miller
2016-12-20 20:27 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-21 18:17 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 05/14] sparc64: Add PAGE_SHR_CTX flag Mike Kravetz
2016-12-18 3:12 ` David Miller
2016-12-19 0:42 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-20 18:33 ` David Miller
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 06/14] sparc64: general shared context tsb creation and support Mike Kravetz
2016-12-17 7:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-12-19 0:52 ` Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 07/14] sparc64: move COMPUTE_TAG_TARGET and COMPUTE_TSB_PTR to header file Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 08/14] sparc64: shared context tsb handling at context switch time Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 09/14] sparc64: TLB/TSB miss handling for shared context Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 10/14] mm: add shared context to vm_area_struct Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 11/14] sparc64: add routines to look for vmsa which can share context Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 12/14] mm: add mmap and shmat arch hooks for shared context Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 13/14] sparc64 mm: add shared context support to mmap() and shmat() APIs Mike Kravetz
2016-12-16 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 14/14] sparc64: add SHARED_MMU_CTX Kconfig option Mike Kravetz
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