From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, joerg.roedel@amd.com,
fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, reif@earthlink.net,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] sparc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h and pci-dma-compat.h
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:21:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090802.202135.63875488.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090718110620.GC27287@elte.hu>
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:06:20 +0200
> I'm wondering why sparc32 frees from the middle of the kernel image.
> The way architectures generally do it is to put freeable pages into
> a separate section. That way it does not get mingled with the kernel
> core image area (which stays nicely continuous).
It's conditionally free'able, we actually use the pages
if the system is SMP and has more than cpu 0 installed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 6:25 [PATCH v2 0/8] sparc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h and pci-dma-compat.h FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 1/8] remove flush_write_buffers() in dma-mapping-common.h FUJITA Tomonori
2009-08-05 1:48 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 2/8] IA64: remove NULL flush_write_buffers FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 3/8] sparc: use dma_map_ops struct FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-17 2:36 ` David Miller
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 4/8] sparc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-17 2:37 ` David Miller
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 5/8] sparc: remove no-op dma_4v_sync_single_for_cpu and dma_4v_sync_sg_for_cpu FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-17 2:37 ` David Miller
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 6/8] sparc: replace sbus_map_single and sbus_unmap_single with sbus_map_page and sbus_unmap_page FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-17 2:37 ` David Miller
2009-07-13 6:25 ` [PATCH 7/8] sparc: use asm-generic/pci-dma-compat FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-17 2:38 ` David Miller
2009-07-13 6:26 ` [PATCH 8/8] sparc: add CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG support FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-17 2:39 ` David Miller
2009-07-14 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] sparc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h and pci-dma-compat.h Robert Reif
2009-07-14 1:40 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-07-14 9:23 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-14 20:12 ` David Miller
2009-07-18 11:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-03 3:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-08-03 5:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-04 4:21 ` David Miller
2009-07-21 16:05 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-21 19:15 ` David Miller
2009-08-03 5:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-04 4:22 ` David Miller
2009-08-04 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
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