On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 06:48 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:15 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > plain text document attachment (003-mm-update-pgd.diff) > > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > In order to change the layout of the page tables after an mmap has > > crossed the adress space limit of the current page table layout a > > architecture hook in get_unmapped_area is needed. The arguments > > are the address of the new mapping and the length of it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm not at all fan of the hook there and it's name... > > Any reason why you can't do that in your arch gua ? > > If not, then why can't you call it something nicer, like > arch_rebalance_pgtables() ? The name can be changed in no time. I've tried to use one of the existing arch calls like arch_mmap_check or arch_get_unmapped_area but it didn't work out. I really need the final address to make the call to extend the page tables. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
