From: Andrew Grover <andy.grover@gmail.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux II
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0a09e5c041014185545517031@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.10.14.16.57.23.884792@smurf.noris.de>
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:57:24 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
<smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> Hi, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > And when you cannot remember the few names for the level you
> > better shouldn't touch VM at all.
>
> Disagree. Rather strongly in fact.
>
> It's probably OK if you already know the stuff and have been hacking
> Linux' mm for years already, but if you try to learn how things work by
> actually looking at the code..?
>
> Just number them. Let pd1 point to pages, pd2 to pd1 entries, and so on.
> (Level zero is the actual pages.)
I happen to agree, but surely this can be addressed at our leisure,
after pml4 is in.
Maybe a good task for the kernel janitors, if we all agree more
sensible names are desirable.
Regards -- Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 3:36 4level page tables for Linux II Albert Cahalan
2004-10-13 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 21:42 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-14 16:57 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-15 1:55 ` Andrew Grover [this message]
2004-10-15 13:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-15 13:55 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-15 23:39 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-17 5:54 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-12 13:59 4level page tables for Linux Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-12 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 19:08 ` 4level page tables for Linux II Andi Kleen
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