Re: lpar issue for ZONE_DEVICE p2pmem in 4.14-rc

2017-10-28 Thread Stephen Bates
Oliver >The alternative approach you mentioned that uses ioremap() should work >fine though. Great, thanks for this useful information Oliver. I am working on rebasing the ioremap() patch on 4.14 and will let you know how it goes. > Also, Alexy (+cc) said he was interested in trying this on s

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove hash page table slot tracking from linux PTE

2017-10-28 Thread Ram Pai
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:57:13AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > On 10/27/2017 10:04 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 09:38:17AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>With hash translation mode we always tracked the hash pte slot details in > >>linux page tab

Re: [PATCH 09/25] powerpc: ability to create execute-disabled pkeys

2017-10-28 Thread Ram Pai
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:06:18AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Ram Pai writes: > > > powerpc has hardware support to disable execute on a pkey. > > This patch enables the ability to create execute-disabled > > keys. > > Can you summarize here how this works? Access to IAMR is > privileged