Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the
> address space whose page size can be dynamically configured at boot.
This doesn't seem to cause any problems, and users successfully used it
with the ubuntu hardy kernel, so I think it is OK
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:46 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
>>
>> It doesn't seem to cause problems on PS3, and I added it into
>> ps3-linux.git
>> as other/powerpc-vmemmap-variable-page-size.diff, but I couldn't get
>> it to
>> fail without the patch...
>>
>> Could yo
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:46 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
>
> It doesn't seem to cause problems on PS3, and I added it into
> ps3-linux.git
> as other/powerpc-vmemmap-variable-page-size.diff, but I couldn't get
> it to
> fail without the patch...
>
> Could you send me your kernel .config?
ps3_def
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the
> address space whose page size can be dynamically configured at boot.
>
> The problem with the current approach of always using 16M pages is that
> it's not well suited to machines that have s
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 12:06 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > booting 2.6.25 with a ps3_defconfig and that doesn't work neither
> > (though at least when doing the later, I do get a black screen & no
> > sync, like of ps3fb failed monitor detection, while with current
> > upstream, I just get the las
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the
> address space whose page size can be dynamically configured at boot.
>
> The problem with the current approach of always using 16M pages is that
> it's not well suited to machines that have s
This patch changes vmemmap to use a different region (region 0xf) of the
address space whose page size can be dynamically configured at boot.
The problem with the current approach of always using 16M pages is that
it's not well suited to machines that have small amounts of memory such
as small par
