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| author |   Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2007-05-09 14:38:48 +1000 |
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| committer |   Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-05-09 16:35:00 +1000 |
| commit | 517e22638c282bb07c52a11f928961ed4822196b (patch) | |
| tree | 7eab8eb1242ee18f75c325077f26bdcb86133512 /lib/textsearch.c | |
| parent | [POWERPC] Spufs support for 64K LS mappings on 4K kernels (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-517e22638c282bb07c52a11f928961ed4822196b.tar.xz linux-dev-517e22638c282bb07c52a11f928961ed4822196b.zip | |
[POWERPC] Don't use SLAB/SLUB for PTE pages
The SLUB allocator relies on struct page fields first_page and slab,
overwritten by ptl when SPLIT_PTLOCK: so the SLUB allocator cannot then
be used for the lowest level of pagetable pages. This was obstructing
SLUB on PowerPC, which uses kmem_caches for its pagetables. So convert
its pte level to use normal gfp pages (whereas pmd, pud and 64k-page pgd
want partpages, so continue to use kmem_caches for pmd, pud and pgd).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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