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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLB shadow buffer
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:45:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060805124544.GB23494@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060804055323.1A9BE679FB@ozlabs.org>

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:53:19PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> This adds a shadow buffer for the SLBs and regsiters it with PHYP.
> Only the bolted SLB entries (first 3) are saved.

What is a SLB shadow buffer and why do we need it?  (I don't want to
question the patch but rather learn a little more about lowlevel ppc64
mmu details)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-05 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-04  5:53 [PATCH] SLB shadow buffer Michael Neuling
2006-08-05 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-08-09 11:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-09 13:01     ` Segher Boessenkool
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-05  5:56 Milton Miller
2006-08-07  5:55 ` Michael Neuling
2006-08-05 21:18 Milton Miller
2006-08-06  1:27 ` Michael Neuling
2006-08-07  6:19 Michael Neuling
2006-08-08  1:15 Milton Miller
2006-08-08  4:21 ` Michael Neuling
2006-08-08  4:29 Michael Neuling

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