[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures.

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Nov 3 22:26:12 EST 2008


On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:43:54 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> > Cropping the size of the memory node.  That was simplest to do from the
> > cuboot wrapper at the time.  If marking it reserved via a reserve map
> > is more elegant and correct, we could do that.
> > 
> > But I will still like to know what about the other way is hairy please.
> 
> I don't like it :-) Bad feeling ... don't like having a memory
> node entry that isn't aligned to some large power of two typically.

Erm, ok.  And does your heebie-geebies extend to people using the mem=
parameter in a similar fashion?

josh



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