Re[2]: [PATCH][v3] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-12 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Prodyut, On Monday, January 12, 2009 you wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> >> This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. >> > Hi Yuri, > Do you still need the mm/shmem.c patch to avoid division by zero? Yes. > I looked at the mm/sh

Re: [PATCH][v3] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-12 Thread prodyut hazarika
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > > This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. > Hi Yuri, Do you still need the mm/shmem.c patch to avoid division by zero? I looked at the mm/shmem.c latest git code, and I see that it doesn't have the needed patch for 2

Re: [PATCH][v3] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-11 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:42:30PM +0300, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > >This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. > >For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume >2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space >reserved for PTE tab

[PATCH][v3] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-11 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume 2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are actually used. But this