From: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>
To: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Martin Schwidefsky <martin.schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
carsteno@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Heiko Carstens <h.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] mm: use a pte bit to flag normal pages
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:52:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6934efce0801071452q9011f1cnfa16cef364c13541@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107194543.GA2788@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
> Currently, Linux is able to setup mappings in kernel space to cover
> any combination of settings. However, userspace is much more limited
> because we don't carry the additional bits around in the Linux version
> of the PTE - and as such shared mmaps on some systems can end up locking
> the CPU.
>
> A few attempts have been made at solving these without using the
> additional PTE bits, but they've been less that robust.
Do these new ARM implementations use more bits than most archs?
Most ARM implementations can spare a PTE bit for this, right? Is the
use of these 3 extra bits to cover a few buggy processors or is this
caused by consolidating the needs of widely differing architectures?
I just can't get over the idea that you _have_ use up all available
bits. Oh well.
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 13:38 [rfc][patch 1/2] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP mappings Nick Piggin
2007-12-14 13:41 ` [rfc][patch 2/2] xip: support non-struct page memory Nick Piggin
2007-12-14 13:46 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-15 1:07 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-15 1:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-15 6:47 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-19 14:04 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 9:23 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-21 0:40 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-20 13:53 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 14:33 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 14:50 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 17:24 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-21 0:12 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-21 0:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 9:56 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 9:49 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 0:50 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:02 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:17 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:23 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:31 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 0:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:05 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:20 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:35 ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:47 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 19:29 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-07 4:43 ` [rfc][patch] mm: use a pte bit to flag normal pages Nick Piggin
2008-01-07 10:30 ` Russell King
2008-01-07 11:14 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-07 18:49 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-07 19:45 ` Russell King
2008-01-07 22:52 ` Jared Hulbert [this message]
2008-01-08 2:37 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08 2:49 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 3:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08 3:52 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 10:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-08 10:52 ` Russell King
2008-01-08 13:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-08 14:08 ` Russell King
2008-01-10 13:33 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 23:18 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 9:35 ` [rfc][patch 0/4] VM_MIXEDMAP patchset with s390 backend Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 10:08 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 11:34 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 11:55 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 12:03 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 13:56 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-08 14:51 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 18:09 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-08 22:12 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-09 15:14 ` [rfc][patch 0/4] VM_MIXEDMAP patchset with s390 backend v2 Carsten Otte
[not found] ` <1199891032.28689.9.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
2008-01-09 15:14 ` [rfc][patch 1/4] include: add callbacks to toggle reference counting for VM_MIXEDMAP pages Carsten Otte, Carsten Otte
2008-01-09 17:31 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-09 18:17 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-10 7:59 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 20:01 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-11 8:45 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-13 2:44 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-14 11:36 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-16 4:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-15 13:05 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-16 4:22 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-16 14:29 ` [rft] updated xip patch rollup Nick Piggin
2008-01-17 10:24 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 20:23 ` [rfc][patch 1/4] include: add callbacks to toggle reference counting for VM_MIXEDMAP pages Jared Hulbert
2008-01-11 8:32 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 0:20 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-10 8:06 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-09 15:14 ` [rfc][patch 2/4] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP Carsten Otte, Jared Hulbert, Carsten Otte
2008-01-09 15:14 ` [rfc][patch 3/4] Convert XIP to support non-struct page backed memory Carsten Otte, Nick Piggin
2008-01-09 15:14 ` [rfc][patch 4/4] s390: remove struct page entries for DCSS memory segments Carsten Otte, Carsten Otte
[not found] ` <1199784196.25114.11.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
2008-01-08 9:35 ` [rfc][patch 1/4] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP Carsten Otte, Jared Hulbert, Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 9:35 ` [rfc][patch 2/4] xip: support non-struct page memory Carsten Otte, Nick Piggin, Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 9:36 ` [rfc][patch 3/4] s390: remove sturct page entries for z/VM DCSS memory segments Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 9:36 ` [rfc][patch 4/4] s390: mixedmap_refcount_pfn implementation using list walk Carsten Otte
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