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* [PATCH 0/11] alternate 4-level page tables patches (take 2)
@ 2004-12-22  9:50 Nick Piggin
  2004-12-22  9:52 ` [PATCH 1/11] parentheses to x86-64 macro Nick Piggin
  2004-12-22 10:18 ` [PATCH 0/11] alternate 4-level page tables patches (take 2) Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Nick Piggin @ 2004-12-22  9:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Andi Kleen, Hugh Dickins,
	Linux Memory Management

OK, it turned out that the fallback header I sent out earlier seemed
to do the right thing on both ia64 and x86_64 (3-level) without really
any changes. So combined with i386 !PAE, that covers 2-level and 3-level
implementations... so with any luck it will work on all arches.

So in the following series, there is:

a minor shuffling of hunks between patches
slight improvement to the clear_page_range patch
one off-by-one bug in clear_pud_range
dropped the inlining patch
inclusion of the fallback header.

Theoretically, all architectures should continue to work as before.

Comments? Any consensus as to which way we want to go? I don't want to
inflame tempers by continuing this line of work, just provoke discussion.

Thanks,
Nick
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2004-12-22  9:50 [PATCH 0/11] alternate 4-level page tables patches (take 2) Nick Piggin
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2004-12-22  9:53   ` [PATCH 2/11] generic 3-level nopmd folding header Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  9:54     ` [PATCH 3/11] convert i386 to generic nopmd header Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  9:54       ` [PATCH 4/11] split copy_page_range Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  9:55         ` [PATCH 5/11] replace clear_page_tables with clear_page_range Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  9:56           ` [PATCH 6/11] introduce 4-level nopud folding header Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  9:57             ` [PATCH 7/11] convert Linux to 4-level page tables Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  9:59               ` [PATCH 8/11] introduce fallback header Nick Piggin
2004-12-22 10:00                 ` [PATCH 9/11] convert i386 to generic nopud header Nick Piggin
2004-12-22 10:00                   ` [PATCH 10/11] convert ia64 " Nick Piggin
2004-12-22 10:01                     ` [PATCH 11/11] convert x86_64 to 4 level page tables Nick Piggin
2004-12-22 10:18 ` [PATCH 0/11] alternate 4-level page tables patches (take 2) Andi Kleen

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