From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com (e2.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e2.ny.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67856DE394 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 03:07:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (d01relay07.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.147]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4DH7M8J018785 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 13:07:22 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m4DH7IXC241718 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 13:07:18 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m4DH7E0f012966 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 11:07:15 -0600 Message-ID: <4829CAC3.30900@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:07:15 -0500 From: Jon Tollefson MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management List , linuxppc-dev Subject: [PATCH 0/6] 16G and multi size hugetlb page support on powerpc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Nick Piggin , Nishanth Aravamudan , Andi Kleen , Paul Mackerras Reply-To: kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , This patch set builds on Nick Piggin's patches for multi size and giant hugetlb page support of April 22. The following set of patches adds support for 16G huge pages on ppc64 and support for multiple huge page sizes at the same time on ppc64. Thus allowing 64K, 16M, and 16G huge pages given a POWER5+ or later machine. New to this version of my patch is numerous bug fixes and cleanups, but the biggest change is the support for multiple huge page sizes on power. patch 1: changes to generic hugetlb to enable 16G pages on power patch 2: powerpc: adds function for allocating 16G pages patch 3: powerpc: setups 16G page locations found in device tree patch 4: powerpc: page definition support for 16G pages patch 5: check for overflow when user space is 32bit patch 6: powerpc: multiple huge page size support Jon