In article <20060620062252.GB18805@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:47:57PM +0900, Horms wrote: >> Sure, could you give me a quick heads-up on what I should do to make >> that happen. > > Well, personally, I'd like to see the whole thing pulled out in > something like > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0511/15890.html > > (ignore the bug I missed in ivt.S) > > I guess it should be sufficient to just do something like > > #ifdef CONFIG_PGTABLE_3 > #define MAPPED_SPACE_BITS (3*(PAGE_SHIFT - PTE_BITS) + PAGE_SHIFT) > #elif CONFIG_PGTABLE_4 > #define MAPPED_SPACE_BITS (4*(PAGE_SHIFT - PTE_BITS) + PAGE_SHIFT) > #endif > > (but then VMALLOC_END is still "wrong", you still can't easily change > the PTE size...) > > This is really tangential to your change however, so probably doesn't > belong in the same changeset. Maybe I could revive that old patch if > anyone has any comments. Well, I was thinking in terms of a second patch. I'd be happy to look over (or upport) a fresh version of your patch, but I will be up front and say that my understanding of pte vs pmd, pud and pgd is weak. That said, I for one think your patch did make things easier to understand, and probably easier to update. -- Horms http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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