From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751989Ab1AXVmj (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:42:39 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:33001 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750831Ab1AXVmi (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:42:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:42:25 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Nick Piggin Cc: Catalin Marinas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table format definitions Message-ID: <20110124214225.GO24104@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1295891761-18366-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1295891761-18366-9-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Too bad about the PAE thing; my condolences. > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Catalin Marinas > wrote: > > This patch introduces the pgtable-3level*.h files with definitions > > specific to the LPAE page table format (3 levels of page tables). > > Seeing as you're shaking up these definitions, what do you think about > switching from 4level-fixup.h to pgtable-nopud.h / pgtable-nopmd.h headers? > One day eventually it would be nice to get rid of the fixup mode. I have patches to do this which I de-queued for the last merge window. It's not entirely trivial and without problem. You can find the patches in linux-next now. I was waiting for the new set of patches from Catalin before going back and working out the solutions to some of those problems.