From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: anton@samba.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [1/3] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Make KERN_IO_START a variable
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 20:55:13 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3xRWWj5NXhz9s72@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1501583364-14909-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 10:29:22 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Currently KERN_IO_START is defined as:
>
> #define KERN_IO_START (KERN_VIRT_START + (KERN_VIRT_SIZE >> 1))
>
> Although it looks like a constant, both the components are actually
> variables, to allow us to have a different value between Radix and
> Hash with a single kernel.
>
> However that still requires both Radix and Hash to place the kernel IO
> region at the same location relative to the start and end of the
> kernel virtual region (namely 1/2 way through it), and we'd like to
> change that.
>
> So split KERN_IO_START out into its own variable, and initialise it
> for Radix and Hash. In the medium term we should be able to
> reconsolidate this, by doing a more involved rearrangement of the
> location of the regions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Series applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/63ee9b2ff9d306efaa61b04b8710fa
cheers
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 10:29 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Make KERN_IO_START a variable Michael Ellerman
2017-08-01 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/mm/slb: Move comment next to the code it's referring to Michael Ellerman
2017-08-02 8:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-08-01 10:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm/hash64: Make vmalloc 56T on hash Michael Ellerman
2017-08-02 8:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-08-03 0:00 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-02 8:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Make KERN_IO_START a variable Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-08-02 22:20 ` Balbir Singh
2017-08-08 10:55 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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