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
next prev parent 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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