> > Why do you want to create a virtual page table at the PMD level ? Also,
> > you are changing the geometry of the page tables which I think we don't
> > want. We chose that geometry so that the levels match the segment sizes
> > on server, I think it may have an impact with the hugetlbfs code (
On Thu, 19 May 2011 07:32:41 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:04 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > This allows a virtual page table to be used at the PMD rather than
> > the PTE level.
> >
> > Rather than adjust the constant in pgd_index() (or ignore it, as
> > too-large
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:04 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> This allows a virtual page table to be used at the PMD rather than
> the PTE level.
>
> Rather than adjust the constant in pgd_index() (or ignore it, as
> too-large values don't hurt as long as overly large addresses aren't
> passed in), go ba