Re: [RFC][PATCH] remove section mappinng

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Mackerras
Badari Pulavarty writes: > Thank you for your input and suggestions. Does this look reasonable > to you ? > > Thanks, > Badari > > For memory remove, we need to clean up htab mappings for the > section of the memory we are removing. > > This patch implements support for removing htab bolted map

Re: [RFC][PATCH] remove section mappinng

2008-01-28 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 12:24 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Badari Pulavarty writes: > > > Here is the code I cooked up, it seems to be working fine. > > But I have concerns where I need your help. > > > > In order to invalidate htab entries, we need to find the "slot". > > But I can only find the

Re: [RFC][PATCH] remove section mappinng

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Mackerras
Badari Pulavarty writes: > Here is the code I cooked up, it seems to be working fine. > But I have concerns where I need your help. > > In order to invalidate htab entries, we need to find the "slot". > But I can only find the hpte group. Is it okay to invalidate the > first entry in the group ?

[RFC][PATCH] remove section mappinng

2008-01-25 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Paul/Ben/Anton, As part of making memory remove working on ppc64, I need the code to remove htab mappings for the section of the memory. Here is the code I cooked up, it seems to be working fine. But I have concerns where I need your help. In order to invalidate htab entries, we need to find