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From: Andi Kleen <ak@...>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>
Cc: <tglx@...>, <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup over to set_pte
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 - 1:58 pm

> Why?  64-bit Xen will need this to be set_pmd if its an update to L2 of

Then change_page_attr() and hugepages will already not work because they both 
do exactly that.

And I didn't want to duplicate this manual code for the GBpages case, so i 
changed it everywhere to the standard way.

-Andi




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[PATCH] [0/12] GBPAGES patchkit for 2.6.25 v3, Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] [0/12] GBPAGES patchkit for 2.6.25 v3, Thomas Gleixner, (Fri Feb 1, 8:25 am)
[PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup over to..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup ove..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Feb 1, 1:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup ove..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 1:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup ove..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Feb 1, 3:16 pm)
[PATCH] [11/12] GBPAGES: Do kernel direct mapping at boot us..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [10/12] GBPAGES: Remove now unused clear_kernel_mapp..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [8/12] GBPAGES: Implement gbpages support in change_..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [9/12] GBPAGES: Switch pci-gart over to using cpa in..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [7/12] GBPAGES: Add an option to disable direct mapp..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] [7/12] GBPAGES: Add an option to disable direct ..., Randy Dunlap, (Tue Feb 5, 6:41 pm)
[PATCH] [6/12] GBPAGES: Add gbpages support to lookup_address, Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [5/12] GBPAGES: Support gbpages in pagetable dump, Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [4/12] Add pgtable accessor functions for GB pages, Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [3/12] GBPAGES: Add PUD_PAGE_SIZE, Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [2/12] GBPAGES: Rename LARGE_PAGE_SIZE to PMD_PAGE_S..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)
[PATCH] [1/12] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages c..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 1, 5:53 am)