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Message-Id: <E4D699C2-07A8-42FF-A863-5595099CEC4D@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:50:28 -0500
From: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Implement _PAGE_SPECIAL & pte_special() for 32-bit
On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Implement _PAGE_SPECIAL and pte_special() for 32-bit powerpc. This
> bit will
> be used by the fast get_user_pages() to differenciate PTEs that
> correspond
> to a valid struct page from special mappings that don't such as IO
> mappings
> obtained via io_remap_pfn_ranges().
>
> We currently only implement this on sub-arch that support SMP or
> will so
> in the future (6xx, 44x, FSL-BookE) and not (8xx, 40x).
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
> ---
> Nick, do you forsee using _PAGE_SPECIAL for other applications that
> would
> be of interested to non-SMP hw?
>
> We can look at adding it into 8xx and 40x, but was being lazy as I
> assume
> there is no point.
>
> - k
Josh,
Can you test this on 44x for me.
thanks
- k
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