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From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [6/8] GBPAGES: Add an option to disable direct mapping gbpages and a global variable
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:03:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29495f1d0801031103v6c1d76a8meabeab61d0cda2a7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103172703.100C014DDD@wotan.suse.de>

On 1/3/08, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

<snip>

> Index: linux/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> +++ linux/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> @@ -307,3 +307,6 @@ Debugging
>                         stuck (default)
>
>  Miscellaneous
> +
> +       direct_gbpages=off
> +               Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mapping.

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but why do we have this file in addition to
kernel-parameters.txt? I see that kernel-parameters.txt refers to this
file, so I guess it's ok, but shouldn't we try to consolidate?

Thanks,
Nish

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-03 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 17:26 [PATCH] [0/8] GB pages (PDP1GB) support for the kernel direct mapping Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:26 ` [PATCH] [1/8] GBPAGES: Handle kernel near memory hole in clear_kernel_mapping Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 18:29   ` Vivek Goyal
2008-01-03 18:43     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:26 ` [PATCH] [2/8] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid bit Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:26 ` [PATCH] [3/8] GBPAGES: Split LARGE_PAGE_SIZE/MASK into PUD_PAGE_SIZE/PMD_PAGE_SIZE Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:27 ` [PATCH] [4/8] GBPAGES: Add pgtable accessor functions for GB pages Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:27 ` [PATCH] [5/8] GBPAGES: Support gbpages in pagetable dump Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:27 ` [PATCH] [6/8] GBPAGES: Add an option to disable direct mapping gbpages and a global variable Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 19:03   ` Nish Aravamudan [this message]
2008-01-03 17:27 ` [PATCH] [7/8] GBPAGES: Implement GBpages support in change_page_attr() Andi Kleen
2008-01-03 17:27 ` [PATCH] [8/8] GBPAGES: Do kernel direct mapping at boot using GB pages Andi Kleen

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