[POWERPC] 8xx: fix swap
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 7 02:56:58 EST 2008
On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based
> machines.
> Code has been revalidated on mpc885ads (8M sdram) with recent
> kernel. Based
> on patch from Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com> to do the same on arch/
> ppc
> instance.
>
> Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on low-memory
> platforms,
> those are actually non-operable without it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> +++-
> include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc32.h | 8 --------
> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
do we need similar fixes to arch/ppc ?
- k
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