On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:10:02PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > +static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
> >
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >
> > > +static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
> >
> > Please use a more sensible function name. This one has no association
>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > +static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
>
> Please use a more sensible function name. This one has no association
> with the functionality at all.
Can you suggest
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> +static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
Please use a more sensible function name. This one has no association
with the functionality at all.
> +{
> + unsigned long entry;
New line please
> + entry = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE|paddr;
>
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
+static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
Please use a more sensible function name. This one has no association
with the functionality at all.
+{
+ unsigned long entry;
New line please
+ entry = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE|paddr;
+
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
+static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
Please use a more sensible function name. This one has no association
with the functionality at all.
Can you suggest one? I
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
+static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
Please use a more sensible function name. This one has no association
with the
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:10:02PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
+static unsigned long direct_entry(unsigned long paddr)
Please use
This should decrease TLB pressure because the kernel will need
less TLB faults for its own data access.
Only done for 64bit because i386 does not support GB page tables.
This only applies to the data portion of the direct mapping; the
kernel text mapping stays with 2MB pages because the AMD
This should decrease TLB pressure because the kernel will need
less TLB faults for its own data access.
Only done for 64bit because i386 does not support GB page tables.
This only applies to the data portion of the direct mapping; the
kernel text mapping stays with 2MB pages because the AMD
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