From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] fix missing tlb flush on x86 smp+pae
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010316172931.V30889@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103160906490.17122-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:10:49AM -0800
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:10:49AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Intel, yes. The PAE case is a special case: we lose one bit of
> > addressing for each level of page table because the pte width has
> > doubled, so the two-level page table is short of two bits of address
> > coverage in PAE mode.
>
> I would almost tend to suggest that we just always allocate the PAE. Do it
> at the same time we allocate the page directory - make PAE use
> "get_pgd_slow()", and just always allocate the 3 pages. Much simpler.
It would probably be worth it: the binary, libraries and stack are
going to populate all 3 pages almost immediately anyway. I just hate
tweaking code just after we've finally got it stable. :)
--Stephen
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-16 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-15 19:50 Ben LaHaise
2001-03-16 13:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-16 13:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-16 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-16 17:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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