Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable

2007-12-03 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:51:53PM -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > David Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Jon Tollefson wrote: > >> This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of > >> the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Snook
David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Jon Tollefson wrote: >> This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of >> the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of a 12 >> bit pte it would be 7 bit pmd and a 5 bit pte. The pgd and

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable

2007-12-03 Thread Jon Tollefson
David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Jon Tollefson wrote: > >> This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of >> the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of a 12 >> bit pte it would be 7 bit pmd and a 5 bit pte. The pgd

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable

2007-12-02 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Jon Tollefson wrote: > This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of > the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of a 12 > bit pte it would be 7 bit pmd and a 5 bit pte. The pgd and pud offsets > would cont

[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable

2007-11-27 Thread Jon Tollefson
This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of a 12 bit pte it would be 7 bit pmd and a 5 bit pte. The pgd and pud offsets would continue as 9 bits and 7 bits respectively. This will allow the pgtable t