>>> On 8/16/2012 at 05:11 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does it still need a EW segment, or is it now well behaved for shared R/O?
I guess it does. From /usr/src/linux/arch/s390/kernel/early.c:
hlen = snprintf(defsys_cmd, DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE,
"DEFSYS %s 00000-%.5X EW %.5X-%.5X SR %.5X-%.5X",
kernel_nss_name, stext_pfn - 1, stext_pfn,
eshared_pfn - 1, eshared_pfn, end_pfn);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
if (INITRD_START && INITRD_SIZE) {
sinitrd_pfn = PFN_DOWN(__pa(INITRD_START));
einitrd_pfn = PFN_UP(__pa(INITRD_START + INITRD_SIZE));
min_size = einitrd_pfn << 2;
hlen += snprintf(defsys_cmd + hlen, DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - hlen,
" EW %.5X-%.5X", sinitrd_pfn, einitrd_pfn);
}
#endif
snprintf(defsys_cmd + hlen, DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - hlen,
" EW MINSIZE=%.7iK PARMREGS=0-13", min_size);
defsys_cmd[DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
snprintf(savesys_cmd, SAVESYS_CMD_SIZE, "SAVESYS %s \n IPL %s",
kernel_nss_name, kernel_nss_name);
savesys_cmd[SAVESYS_CMD_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
__cpcmd(defsys_cmd, NULL, 0, &response);
I can't say I understand why EW is being used. Perhaps one of the guys in IBM
development can comment on that.
Mark Post
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