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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>, "mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Herrmann3, Andreas" <Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com>,
	"Seidel, Conny" <Conny.Seidel@amd.com>,
	"Sarathy, Bhavna" <Bhavna.Sarathy@amd.com>,
	"greg@kroah.com" <greg@kroah.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86-32: Fix crashes with CPU hotplug on AMD machines
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:14:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5AC736.20903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100805074503.GI18307@amd.com>

On 08/05/2010 12:45 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> 
> To make sure I understand correctly, you suggest to initialize
> tramponline_pg_dir in the boot sequence of the first cpu and fork
> swapper_pg_dir from it later on?
> 

Correct.

>> I realize this isn't how the 64-bit code works at the moment, but in a
>> lot of ways I think it would be better if it did.
> 
> Yeah, may make sense. This patch already brings the 32 bit
> implementation closer to the 64 bit one. On 64 bit things are somewhat
> simpler because the tramponline page table can be defined at
> compile-time there (contains only 2 pgd_t entries) while on 32 bit we
> have to initialize it at runtime.

Correct, again.  It's unclear to me if we can get away with the very
simple 64-bit approach -- in particular, not including all the 1:1
mappings in the kernel -- for all future users, though.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-05 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04 16:45 [PATCH 0/2] Fix 32-bit CPU hotplug issue on AMD Borislav Petkov
2010-08-04 16:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86-32: Fix crashes with CPU hotplug on AMD machines Borislav Petkov
2010-08-04 23:05   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-05  4:48     ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-05  7:45     ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-08-05 14:14       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-08-12 14:41         ` Joerg Roedel
2010-08-12 15:34           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12 15:47             ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-12 15:47               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12 17:38                 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-24  7:33                 ` Initial working version (Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86-32: Fix crashes with CPU hotplug on AMD machines) Borislav Petkov
2010-08-29 20:32                   ` [PATCH] x86-32, mm: Add an initial page table for core bootstrapping Borislav Petkov
2010-09-02  9:10                     ` [PATCH -v1.1] " Borislav Petkov
2010-08-12 17:06             ` [PATCH 1/2] x86-32: Fix crashes with CPU hotplug on AMD machines Joerg Roedel
2010-08-12 19:01               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12 19:04                 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-08-13 12:35                   ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-16 12:19                     ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-16 12:38                       ` [PATCH -v2 " Borislav Petkov
2010-08-18 18:41                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-18 19:09                           ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-18 20:55                           ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Fix dummy trampoline-related inline stubs tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-18 20:55                         ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Separate 1:1 pagetables from swapper_pg_dir tip-bot for Joerg Roedel
2010-08-16 12:39                       ` [PATCH -v2 2/2] x86, cpu hotplug: Fix cpu bringup concurrency issue Borislav Petkov
2010-08-18 19:03                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-18 19:28                           ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-18 20:04                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-19 18:10                               ` [PATCH -v2.1 " Borislav Petkov
2010-08-19 22:58                                 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, hotplug: Serialize CPU hotplug to avoid bringup concurrency issues tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2010-08-04 16:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, cpu hotplug: Fix cpu bringup concurrency issue Borislav Petkov

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