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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8xx: map_page() skip pinned region and tlbie debugging aid
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:47:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120002475.5133.208.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e7207cd8e98080f2f469a668e37a20f@embeddededge.com>

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:53 -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 2:30 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > You should consider 8Mb pages the way we do BATs yes,
> 
> It's always been considered, just never fully implemented :-)
> 
> > Note that I'll soon send the patch I told you about that makes the
> > virtual address picked by io_block_mapping() dynamic, so we no longer
> > have to do crappy assumptions all over the place :)
> 
> Whatever, I'll never use it that way and no one else should either.

That is stupid

> All of the io_block_mapping() calls should be used to set these 8M

I think you just never bothered actually reading all I wrote about
that... None of what you describe requires hard coding the virtual
address. This is just plain bad.

> mapped IO spaces, everyone should use ioremap() to map them,
> and ioremap() has to be modified to find them for the 8xx.

We agree here.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-25 14:53 [PATCH] 8xx: map_page() skip pinned region and tlbie debugging aid Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-25 22:24 ` Dan Malek
2005-06-26 14:30   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-27 13:39     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-27 20:46       ` Dan Malek
2005-06-28  6:30         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-28 13:42           ` [PATCH] 8xx: get_mmu_context() for (very) FEW_CONTEXTS and KERNEL_PREEMPT race/starvation issue Guillaume Autran
2005-06-29  4:15             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-29 15:32               ` Guillaume Autran
2005-06-29 15:54                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-29 21:25                   ` Guillaume Autran
2005-06-29 17:00                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-29 23:26                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-29 19:38                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-30 13:54                       ` Guillaume Autran
2005-07-05 13:12                         ` Guillaume Autran
2005-06-30  0:34                     ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-06-29 23:24                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-28 13:53           ` [PATCH] 8xx: map_page() skip pinned region and tlbie debugging aid Dan Malek
2005-06-28 23:47             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-06-29 17:19             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-29 23:31               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-30 18:05                 ` Dan Malek
2005-06-30 23:29                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-07-01  7:01                     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-06-30 17:49               ` Dan Malek
2005-06-27 14:28   ` [PATCH] 8xx: tlbie debugging aid (try #2) Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-27 20:18     ` Dan Malek
2005-06-27 14:56       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-27 20:53         ` Dan Malek

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