From: "Hollis Blanchard" <hollis@penguinppc.org>
To: "Ben Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, dzu@denx.de, wd@denx.de,
Vladimir Panfilov <pvr@emcraft.com>,
Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures.
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:06:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb412d760812011506x37339fddue100a144e585782e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227829488-8260-1-git-send-email-yanok@emcraft.com>
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> wrote:
> This patch adds support for page sizes bigger than 4K (16K/64K) on
> PPC 44x.
> PGDIR table is much smaller than page in case of 16K/64K pages (512
> and 32 bytes resp.) so we allocate PGDIR with kzalloc() instead of
> __get_free_pages().
> PTE table covers rather big memory area in case of 16K/64K pages
> (32MB and 512MB resp.) so we can easily put FIXMAP and PKMAP in
> area covered by one PTE table.
Ben, you had some comments on the previous version of this patch. Have
those been addressed to your satisfaction? If so, could you please
queue this for 2.6.29?
-Hollis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-01 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-27 23:44 [PATCH] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures Ilya Yanok
2008-12-01 23:06 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2008-12-01 23:22 ` Josh Boyer
2008-12-02 0:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-09 21:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-10 11:21 ` Re[2]: " Yuri Tikhonov
2008-12-10 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-11 1:51 ` Ilya Yanok
2008-12-10 13:58 ` Ilya Yanok
2008-12-11 1:39 ` Ilya Yanok
2008-12-11 1:55 ` Ilya Yanok
2008-12-17 19:56 ` Josh Boyer
2008-12-24 17:03 ` Josh Boyer
2008-12-26 21:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-27 12:05 ` Josh Boyer
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