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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup over to set_pte
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:16:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A36FF2.8000804@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802011858.41269.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Why? 64-bit Xen will need this to be set_pmd if its an update to L2 of
>> the table.
>>
>
> Then change_page_attr() and hugepages will already not work because they both
> do exactly that.
>
> And I didn't want to duplicate this manual code for the GBpages case, so i
> changed it everywhere to the standard way.
It's a bit moot because Xen doesn't support any kind of large page yet,
but there has been some work in that area. The main problem with using
set_pte is that Xen supports trap'n'emulate for pte-level accesses, but
not for upper levels.
Looks like you're right about the rest of cpa; may as well make it all
consistent for now, and we can fix it later when the need arises.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 9:53 [PATCH] [0/12] GBPAGES patchkit for 2.6.25 v3 Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [1/12] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid bit Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [2/12] GBPAGES: Rename LARGE_PAGE_SIZE to PMD_PAGE_SIZE Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [3/12] GBPAGES: Add PUD_PAGE_SIZE Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [4/12] Add pgtable accessor functions for GB pages Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [5/12] GBPAGES: Support gbpages in pagetable dump Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [6/12] GBPAGES: Add gbpages support to lookup_address Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [7/12] GBPAGES: Add an option to disable direct mapping gbpages and a global variable Andi Kleen
2008-02-05 22:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [8/12] GBPAGES: Implement gbpages support in change_page_attr() Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [9/12] GBPAGES: Switch pci-gart over to using cpa instead of clear_kernel_mapping Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [10/12] GBPAGES: Remove now unused clear_kernel_mapping Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [11/12] GBPAGES: Do kernel direct mapping at boot using GB pages Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 9:53 ` [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup over to set_pte Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 17:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-01 17:58 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 19:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-02-01 12:25 ` [PATCH] [0/12] GBPAGES patchkit for 2.6.25 v3 Thomas Gleixner
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