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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	akpm@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/5] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:40:01 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503230039260.10858@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F03211751@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 
> Alternatively you could modify the use of floor/ceiling as they
> are passed down from the top level to indicate the progressively
> greater address ranges that have been dealt with ... but I'm not
> completely convinced that gives you enough information.  You would
> need to do careful extension of the ceiling at each level to make
> sure that you reach out to the end of of each table at each level
> to account for gaps between vmas (which would result in no future
> calldown hitting this part of the table).

That pretty much describes how it does work (when it works!)

Hugh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-23  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-22 22:40 Luck, Tony
2005-03-22 23:30 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  0:40 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-22 23:53 Luck, Tony
2005-03-22 23:56 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  0:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23  1:10   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23  2:00     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  2:10       ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-23  2:15         ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 18:06 Luck, Tony
2005-03-22 18:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-21 22:31 Luck, Tony
2005-03-21 23:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22  4:14   ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22  5:29     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22  6:08       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22  6:33         ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 17:52         ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 17:55     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22  5:42   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-21 20:52 Hugh Dickins
2005-03-21 22:26 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22  5:47   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 17:41     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 12:17   ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 16:37   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 18:34     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:01     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:21       ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:23         ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 19:36           ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 20:21             ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 23:45               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-22 20:33             ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 21:51               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-22 22:41                 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  0:51                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23  2:09                     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 23:32                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-22 23:44                   ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  0:19                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-23  0:20                       ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  0:00                   ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23  0:03                   ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 21:28             ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 23:30     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-23 13:28       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 23:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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