From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: pte_offset_map for ppc assumes HIGHPTE
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:18:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185409094.5495.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707251830.21944.dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:30 -0500, Dave McCracken wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Depends... if you have CONFIG_HIGHMEM and not CONFIG_HIGHPTE, you are
> > wasting time going through kmap_atomic unnecessarily no ? it will probably
> > not do anything because the PTE page is in lowmem but still...
>
> Probably not much time. You still need to do the page to virtual translation,
> which kmap_atomic does for you.
Fair enough.
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-26 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-25 22:16 pte_offset_map for ppc assumes HIGHPTE Satya
2007-07-25 23:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-25 23:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-25 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-25 23:30 ` Dave McCracken
2007-07-26 0:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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