[PATCH] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures.

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Dec 2 10:22:48 EST 2008


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:06:03PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com> wrote:
>> This patch adds support for page sizes bigger than 4K (16K/64K) on
>> PPC 44x.
>> PGDIR table is much smaller than page in case of 16K/64K pages (512
>> and 32 bytes resp.) so we allocate PGDIR with kzalloc() instead of
>> __get_free_pages().
>> PTE table covers rather big memory area in case of 16K/64K pages
>> (32MB and 512MB resp.) so we can easily put FIXMAP and PKMAP in
>> area covered by one PTE table.
>
>Ben, you had some comments on the previous version of this patch. Have
>those been addressed to your satisfaction? If so, could you please
>queue this for 2.6.29?

Milton had some comments too.  And I'd also like to review it and add
and Acked-by since I'll be the one getting bug reports if it's broken :).

I've been sick for the past few days, but this is the first thing to
review on my list tomorrow.

josh



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