linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table format definitions

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikH9tBTGCiJ-+dvhh1tajMVq_6ua41MMZmq48sC@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:36:55 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table
 format definitions

Hi Russell,

On 24 January 2011 21:42, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> Too bad about the PAE thing; my condolences.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Catalin Marinas
>> <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
>> > This patch introduces the pgtable-3level*.h files with definitions
>> > specific to the LPAE page table format (3 levels of page tables).
>>
>> Seeing as you're shaking up these definitions, what do you think about
>> switching from 4level-fixup.h to pgtable-nopud.h / pgtable-nopmd.h headers?
>> One day eventually it would be nice to get rid of the fixup mode.
>
> I have patches to do this which I de-queued for the last merge window.
> It's not entirely trivial and without problem.  You can find the patches
> in linux-next now.
>
> I was waiting for the new set of patches from Catalin before going back
> and working out the solutions to some of those problems.

Any plans for the nopmd patches? I haven't seen them in -next or on the list.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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