Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h

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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...>, Andi Kleen <ak@...>, Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...>
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 7:23 pm

Ingo Molnar wrote:

Oh, yeah.  That's bitten me before, but I guess I lost that part of the 
patch somewhere :(.


It's pretty awful.  The pagetable level folding stuff is fairly deep 
into "too clever" territory, but its hard to see what better 
alternatives there are...  Dropping non-PAE support would be nice, but 
impractical given that even relatively recent chips are missing support 
for it.


Great!

    J
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[PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 6:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 7:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 7:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 7:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 8:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 7:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 8:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 8:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 8:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 8:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 8:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 8:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 8, 9:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 8:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 9:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 8, 9:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 9:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jan Beulich, (Wed Jan 9, 5:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 8, 9:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 9:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 8, 10:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Jan 9, 6:47 am)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 9, 10:26 am)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 11:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Jan 9, 6:48 am)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 9:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 8:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 9:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 9:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 9:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 9:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 8, 9:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 9:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 8, 9:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 8:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 7:51 pm)
[PATCH 05 of 10] x86: page.h: make pte_t a union to always i..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 02 of 10] x86: avoid name conflict for Voyager leave_mm, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 09 of 10] x86: unify paravirt pagetable accessors, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 10 of 10] xen: mask out PWT too, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 10 of 10] xen: mask out PWT too, Jan Beulich, (Wed Jan 9, 5:17 am)
Re: [PATCH 10 of 10] xen: mask out PWT too, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Wed Jan 9, 3:04 pm)
[PATCH 08 of 10] x86: unify zero_page definition, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 06 of 10] x86/vmi: fix compilation as a result of pte..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 04 of 10] x86: unify pgtable accessors which use supp..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 07 of 10] x86: pgtable: unify pte accessors, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 01 of 10] x86: move all asm/pgtable constants into on..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)
[PATCH 03 of 10] x86/pgtable: unify pagetable accessors, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Jan 8, 6:00 pm)