From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2ELF0J9014573 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:15:00 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j2ELEx9J243386 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:14:59 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2ELExlE014186 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:14:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 0/4] sparsemem intro patches From: Dave Hansen Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:14:43 -0800 Message-Id: <1110834883.19340.47.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: The following four patches provide the last needed changes before the introduction of sparsemem. For a more complete description of what this will do, please see this patch: http://www.sr71.net/patches/2.6.11/2.6.11-bk7-mhp1/broken-out/B-sparse-150-sparsemem.patch or previous posts on the subject: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110868540700001&r=1&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109897373315016&w=2 Three of these are i386-only, but one of them reorganizes the macros used to manage the space in page->flags, and will affect all platforms. There are analogous patches to the i386 ones for ppc64, ia64, and x86_64, but those will be submitted by the normal arch maintainers. The combination of the four patches has been test-booted on a variety of i386 hardware, and compiled for ppc64, i386, and x86-64 with about 17 different .configs. It's also been runtime-tested on ia64 configs (with more patches on top). -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org