Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ingo Molnar wrote: and after a session of bisection, the winner patch is: Subject: x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor which is a tad unexpected, given the relatively harmless nature of the patch. (but then again, nothing is really harmless in PAE land.) Oh, well, good. At least off-the-cu

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and after a session of bisection, the winner patch is: > > Subject: x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor > > which is a tad unexpected, given the relatively harmless nature of the > patch. (but then again, nothing is really harmless in PAE land.) ok, i

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hm, i tried this, and got an early crash: > > [ 29.389844] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > [ 29.389872] debug: unmapping init memory c0b03000..c0b6f000 > [ 29.440139] PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1 > [ 29.463676] khelper used gr

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This series addresses various cleanups in pagetable allocation in the direction of unifying 32/64 bits (that's still a while off yet). hm, i tried this, and got an early crash: [ 29.389844] VFS: Mounted root (ext3

Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This series addresses various cleanups in pagetable allocation in the > direction of unifying 32/64 bits (that's still a while off yet). hm, i tried this, and got an early crash: [ 29.389844] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. [

[PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

2008-01-25 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Hi Ingo, This series addresses various cleanups in pagetable allocation in the direction of unifying 32/64 bits (that's still a while off yet). The significant change in here is that I'm separating the lifetime of a pmd from its pgd in the 32-bit PAE case. This makes it logically the same as 64-