From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Norman Gaywood <norm@turing.une.edu.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:09:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021207020910.GX9882@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039228297.25045.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 01:46, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> It's an arch parameter, so they'd probably just
>> #define MMUPAGE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
>> Hugh's original patch did that for all non-i386 arches.
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:31:37AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> These are low end x86 - but we could this based on
> <= i586
> i586
> i686+
It's relatively flexible as to the choice of PAGE_SIZE (it's
MMUPAGE_SIZE that's defined by hardware); about the only constraints
are that jacking it up where PAGE_SIZE spans pmd's breaks the core
vectoring API, PAGE_SIZE >= MMUPAGE_SIZE, both are powers of 2, the
vectors (which are of size MMUPAGE_COUNT*sizeof(pte_t *)) are stack-
allocated, and arch code has to understand small bits of it.
It sounds like we could pick sane defaults based on CPU revision.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-07 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 0:13 Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0? Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 1:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 2:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 5:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 5:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:14 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:34 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 11:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-06 16:19 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 14:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 2:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 1:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 2:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-12-07 0:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 10:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 14:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-06 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <mailman.1039133948.27411.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-12-06 0:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-12-06 1:27 ` Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 12:48 ` Rik van Riel
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