Re: [PATCH 1/6 v2] allow arch specific function for allocating gigantic pages

2008-05-23 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:19:36PM -0500, Jon Tollefson wrote: Allow alloc_bm_huge_page() to be overridden by architectures that can't always use bootmem. This requires huge_boot_pages to be available for use by this function. The 16G pages on ppc64 have to be reserved prior to boot-time. The

[PATCH 1/6 v2] allow arch specific function for allocating gigantic pages

2008-05-13 Thread Jon Tollefson
Allow alloc_bm_huge_page() to be overridden by architectures that can't always use bootmem. This requires huge_boot_pages to be available for use by this function. The 16G pages on ppc64 have to be reserved prior to boot-time. The location of these pages are indicated in the device tree. A