From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, patches@x86-64.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [30/30] x86_64: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 10:20:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46374C94.8020204@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501141714.GT19966@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>..
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:32:33AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> You need to go search the archives and read the *extensive* thread
>> on this from when it was introduced. Lots of high profile kernel
>> developers were in on this one.
>
> Various good points were raised. The NX bit requiring
> 3-level pagetables suggests that 3-level pagetables without highmem
> would be valuable, at which point the unaligned splits to avoid highmem
> with 3-level pagetables gain additional relevance. I'll queue that up
> to be written along with split pmd affairs, and check for features
> dependent on 4-level pagetables, too.
Excellent! That would be super to have in there, William.
Cheers!
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 3:57 [PATCH] [0/30] x86 candidate patches for review VII: VDSO, CPUID, NMI watchdog, MCE, misc Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:57 ` [PATCH] [1/30] x86_64: Dynamically adjust machine check interval Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:57 ` [PATCH] [2/30] x86_64: set node_possible_map at runtime - try 2 Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [3/30] i386: Clean up NMI watchdog code Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [4/30] x86_64: Use the 32bit wd_ops for 64bit too Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [5/30] x86_64: Define IGNORE_IOCTL() macro for compat_ioctls Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [6/30] x86_64: Shut up 32bit emulation for SIOCGIFCOUNT Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [7/30] x86_64: Avoid overflows during apic timer calibration Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [8/30] x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 5:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-01 7:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 8:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [9/30] x86_64: Use symbolic CPU features in early CPUID check Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [10/30] x86_64: Drop -traditional for arch/x86_64/boot Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [11/30] i386: Drop -traditional in arch/i386/boot Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [12/30] i386: Verify important CPUID bits in real mode Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [13/30] i386: Evaluate constant cpu features at runtime Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [14/30] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386 Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [15/30] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386 Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [16/30] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [17/30] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [18/30] x86_64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [19/30] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [20/30] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0) Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [21/30] x86_64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [22/30] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [23/30] x86_64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64 Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [24/30] x86_64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 15:45 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-02 10:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [25/30] x86_64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [26/30] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [27/30] i386: white space fixes in i387.h Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [28/30] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [29/30] x86_64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:58 ` [PATCH] [30/30] x86_64: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 4:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-01 6:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 13:01 ` Bill Irwin
2007-05-01 13:49 ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01 15:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-01 17:00 ` Bill Irwin
2007-05-01 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 20:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-02 9:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 4:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-01 4:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-01 5:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-01 5:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 13:32 ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01 14:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-01 14:20 ` Mark Lord [this message]
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