On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 13:13 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Will Schmidt writes:
I still need to test this code for performance issues, and this version
could still use some cosmetic touchups, so I dont think we want this to
go into a tree yet. I am reposting this primarily to indicate the
Olof Johansson writes:
This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
(currently POWER5+ and POWER6).
PA6T supports them as well :)
In the patch, we don't actually hard-code the CPU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT
Will Schmidt writes:
I still need to test this code for performance issues, and this version
could still use some cosmetic touchups, so I dont think we want this to
go into a tree yet. I am reposting this primarily to indicate the prior
version isnt quite right, and so Jon can rebase to this
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:07:58PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Olof Johansson writes:
This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
(currently POWER5+ and POWER6).
PA6T supports them as well
Paul Mackerras wrote:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
A couple of hunks fail in this file when applying to the current tree.
...
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/mmu-hash64.h
b/include/asm-powerpc/mmu-hash64.h
index 695962f..053f86b 100644
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Hi Paul,
just a few questions.
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:04 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
(currently POWER5+ and POWER6). We don't currently use 1TB
Is there technical reason why the 'local' variable remains at the end of
the parm list for these? In other cases 'ssize' simply gets added to
the end of the parm list.
Looks nicer to have psize and ssize together :-)
Ben.
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On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 08:37 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Is there technical reason why the 'local' variable remains at the end of
the parm list for these? In other cases 'ssize' simply gets added to
the end of the parm list.
Looks nicer to have psize and ssize together :-)
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:41:23PM -0500, Will Schmidt wrote:
Hi Paul,
just a few questions.
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+#define VSID_MULTIPLIER_256M ASM_CONST(200730139)/* 28-bit prime
*/
+#define VSID_MULTIPLIER_1T ASM_CONST(12538073) /* 24-bit prime */
Anything special in how this
