From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use pgd accessors when cloning a pgd range.
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:49:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC99B73.6040201@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101028112052.GA21757@a1.tnic>
On 10/28/2010 4:20 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
>> BTW, are there plans to unify 32 and 64 bit WRT the use of
>> swapper_pg_dir vs initial_page_table?
>
> To be honest, I thought about it but 64bit does the bootstrapping
> differently. I'll look into it one fine day when there's time. (like
> there ever is :))
>
The delta between the early 32- and 64-bit code is one of our big
problems at the moment.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 8:50 [PATCH] x86: use pgd accessors when cloning a pgd range Ian Campbell
2010-10-27 10:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-27 16:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 17:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 17:51 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-27 17:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 18:02 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-27 18:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 18:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 19:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 17:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-27 17:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 17:58 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-28 9:23 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-28 11:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-28 11:53 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-28 15:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-10-28 15:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-03 15:35 ` Ian Campbell
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