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2008-02-12[SPARC]: Use shorter form of "get_zeroed_page".Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-08CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.Martin Schwidefsky
Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390. These sub-page page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization instruction with KVM. The SIE instruction requires that the page tables have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries (pgste). The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE instruction. The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking. To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return 1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE. Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K. That means the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct page. Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than 32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be accessible since its not kmapped). Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a pgtable_t. For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a later patch. For everybody else it will be a (struct page *). The additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and a destructor pgtable_page_dtor. The page table allocation and free functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or freed. pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer. To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added. It replaces the pmd_page call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-27[SPARC32]: __inline__ --> inlineDavid S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-22Update arch/ to use sg helpersJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16SPARC: sg chaining supportJens Axboe
This updates the sparc iommu/pci dma mappers to sg chaining. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-08-14[SPARC32]: Remove superfluous 'kernel_end' alignment on sun4c.Mark Fortescue
In sun4c_init_clean_mmu(), aligning 'kernel_end' using SUN4C_REAL_PGDIR_ALIGN() is unnecessary since the caller does this already. In sun4c_paging_init(), 4 page sizes of "fluff" were added to the address of &end. This was necessary a long time ago when sparc32 would allocate some early data structures by carving out memory chunks after &end but that no longer occurs. Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31[SPARC]: Fix exec failures on sun4c.Mark Fortescue
This deals with a sun4c issue caused by commit b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba: mm: variable length argument support. The new way the code works means that sun4c_update_mmu_cache gets called before a context has been selected, which results in invalid operation of the underling mm code. Simply ignoring update requests when there is no valid context solves the problem. Signed-off-by Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-21[SPARC32]: Make PAGE_SHARED a read-mostly variable.Al Viro
same scheme as for sparc64, same rationale Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-16page table handling cleanupJan Beulich
Kill pte_rdprotect(), pte_exprotect(), pte_mkread(), pte_mkexec(), pte_read(), pte_exec(), and pte_user() except where arch-specific code is making use of them. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macrosDave McCracken
One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the pxx_page macros. pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel have returned the kernel virtual address. pud_page and pgd_page, on the other hand, return the kernel virtual address. Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page structures. There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is simple to standardize their usage. Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone patch. Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning. Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-22[SPARC]: Respect vm_page_prot in io_remap_page_range().David S. Miller
Make sure the callers do a pgprot_noncached() on vma->vm_page_prot. Pointed out by Hugh Dickens. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-15[PATCH] sun4c_memerr_reg __iomem annotationsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!