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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, prodyut hazarika <prodyuth@gmail.com>,
	wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de, Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add support for PAGE_SIZEs greater than 4KB for
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:37:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080913193712.526aac41@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221328153.7675.25.camel@pasglop>

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:49:13 -0700
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:57 -0700, prodyut hazarika wrote:
> 
> > You should mention an example of dedicated cases (eg. RAID).
> > I think this help should mention that for page size 256KB, you will
> > need to have a special version of binutils, since the ELF standard
> > mentions page sizes only upto 64KB.
> 
> He should also put a BIG FAT warning with 256K pages. Those will -not-
> work with most existing userspace. The maximum page size supported by
> the current userspace ABI is 64K as this is the alignment requirement of
> our toolchain for the various program sections.

I think that's been noted like 5 times now :)

josh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-13 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-10 21:53 [RFC PATCH] Support for big page sizes on 44x Ilya Yanok
2008-09-10 21:53 ` [PATCH] powerpc: add support for PAGE_SIZEs greater than 4KB for Ilya Yanok
2008-09-11 16:57   ` prodyut hazarika
2008-09-11 18:15     ` Re[2]: " Yuri Tikhonov
2008-09-11 20:09       ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-11 23:38         ` Ilya Yanok
2008-09-12  0:47           ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-11 18:28     ` Ilya Yanok
2008-09-11 18:38       ` prodyut hazarika
2008-09-11 22:44         ` Ilya Yanok
2008-09-11 23:52           ` Re[2]: " Yuri Tikhonov
2008-09-11 18:53       ` prodyut hazarika
2008-09-11 21:51         ` Ilya Yanok
2008-09-13 17:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-13 23:37       ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-09-11 22:37   ` prodyut hazarika
2008-09-11 23:20     ` Re[2]: " Yuri Tikhonov
2008-09-12  3:48   ` David Gibson
2008-09-13 17:46     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-26 23:43       ` Ilya Yanok
2008-09-26 23:35     ` Ilya Yanok
2008-09-29  2:58       ` David Gibson
2008-09-10 21:53 ` [PATCH] mm: fix ENTRIES_PER_PAGEPAGE overflow with 256KB pages Ilya Yanok
2008-09-12  3:50   ` David Gibson
2008-09-12  5:29     ` prodyut hazarika

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