From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@osdl.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:55:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050322095532.2b8366c9.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111464894.5125.34.camel@npiggin-nld.site>
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:14:54 +1100
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> For example, you may have a single page (start,end) address range
> to free, but if this is enclosed by a large enough (floor,ceiling)
> then it may free an entire pgd entry.
>
> I assume the intention of the API would be to provide the full
> pgd width in that case?
Yes, that is what should happen if the full PGD entry is liberated.
Any time page table chunks are liberated, they have to be included
in the range passed to the flush_tlb_pgtables() call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 22:31 [PATCH 1/5] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list Luck, Tony
2005-03-21 23:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 4:14 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 5:29 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 6:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 6:33 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 17:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 17:55 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-03-22 5:42 ` Hugh Dickins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-22 23:53 Luck, Tony
2005-03-22 23:56 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 0:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 2:00 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 2:10 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-23 2:15 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 22:40 Luck, Tony
2005-03-22 23:30 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 0:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 18:06 Luck, Tony
2005-03-22 18:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-21 20:52 Hugh Dickins
2005-03-21 22:26 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 5:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 17:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 12:17 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 16:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 18:34 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:01 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:21 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 20:21 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 23:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-22 20:33 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 21:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 22:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 0:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 2:09 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 23:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 23:44 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 0:19 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-23 0:20 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 0:00 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 0:03 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 21:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 23:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-23 13:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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