From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1odl53jbc.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704301826.57920.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:26:57 +0200")
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 18:15:08 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> Currently we have a lot of special case code and a lot of limitations
>> because we cannot count on the initial boot time page tables being in
>> the format our page table handling routines know how to manipulate.
>> So this patch rewrites the code that initializes our boot time page
>> tables.
>
> Sounds reasonable, but for post .22
Sure. A little aging to gain confidence with it is reasonable. At
this point I finally have the glitches worked out so these patches
needed to get out of my private queue.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <m1d51l6f1y.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
2007-04-30 15:48 ` [PATCH 01/12] x86_64: Allow fixmaps to be used with the initial page table Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m18xc96eyq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
2007-04-30 15:49 ` [PATCH 02/12] i386 head.S: Remove unnecessary use of %ebx as the boot cpu flag Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m14pmx6ewk.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
2007-04-30 15:51 ` [PATCH 03/12] i386 head.S: Always run the full set of paging state Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1zm4p509a.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
2007-04-30 15:57 ` [PATCH 04/12] i386 voyager: Use modern techniques to setup and teardown low identiy mappings Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:03 ` [PATCH 05/12] i386: During page table initialization always set the leaf page table entries Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1r6q14zow.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
2007-04-30 16:09 ` [PATCH 06/12] i386: Minimum cpu detection cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:10 ` [PATCH 07/12] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:15 ` [PATCH 08/12] i386: Convert the boot time page tables to the kernels native format Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-30 16:32 ` [PATCH 09/12] i386/x86_64: EHCI usb debug port early printk support Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:32 ` [PATCH 10/12] i386: Introduce head32.c Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:33 ` [PATCH 11/12] i386: Move setup_idt from head.S to head32.c Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:35 ` [PATCH 12/12] i386: remove cpuid checking in head.S Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 17:56 ` [PATCH 09/12] i386/x86_64: EHCI usb debug port early printk support Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20070430175607.GD25929@bingen.suse.de>
2007-04-30 20:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <200704301826.57920.ak@suse.de>
2007-04-30 16:42 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-04-30 16:16 ` [PATCH 07/12] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 16:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:13 ` [PATCH 06/12] i386: Minimum cpu detection cleanups H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 16:34 ` [PATCH 05/12] i386: During page table initialization always set the leaf page table entries Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-30 17:06 ` [PATCH 04/12] i386 voyager: Use modern techniques to setup and teardown low identiy mappings James Bottomley
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