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.
next prev parent 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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