Messages in this thread | | | From | "Chen, Kenneth W" <> | Subject | RE: hugetlb demand paging patch part [0/3] | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:43:08 -0700 |
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David Gibson wrote on Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:33 PM > To unify even the non-ppc64 archs we already have to allow for the > hugepage pagetables to have different structure across archs - on i386 > and ppc64 the hugePTEs lie in PMD slots, on sparc64 and sh they lie in > (normal) PTE slots and on IA64 they lie in the PTE slots of a special > set of pagetables. Given that, it seems conceptually logical to me > that we also not assume the hugepage PTEs have the same layout as > normal PTEs. It makes the handle_mm_fault function not the least more > complicated.
Correction: huge page pte on ia64 has the same format as a normal page pte.
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