On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 09:40 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > 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. You arch get_unmapped_area() has it... Ben. - 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
