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2006-04-28	[PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepages	David Gibson	1	-0/+2
	At present, ARCH=powerpc kernels can waste considerable space in pagetables when making large hugepage mappings. Hugepage PTEs go in PMD pages, but each PMD page maps 256M and so contains only 16 hugepage PTEs (128 bytes of data), but takes up a 1024 byte allocation. With CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES enabled (64k base page size), the situation is worse. Now hugepage PTEs are at the PTE page level (also mapping 256M), so we store 16 hugepage PTEs in a 64k allocation. The PowerPC MMU already means that any 256M region is either all hugepage, or all normal pages. Thus, with some care, we can use a different allocation for the hugepage PTE tables and only allocate the 128 bytes necessary. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-17	[PATCH] powerpc: Fix accidentally-working typo in __pud_free_tlb	David Gibson	1	-1/+1
	One of the parameters to the __pud_free_tlb() macro for powerpc is incorrect (see patch) . We get away with it by accident, because the one place the macro is called, the second parameter is a variable named "pud". Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09	[PATCH] powerpc: sanitize header files for user space includes	Arnd Bergmann	1	-0/+2
	include/asm-ppc/ had #ifdef __KERNEL__ in all header files that are not meant for use by user space, include/asm-powerpc does not have this yet. This patch gets us a lot closer there. There are a few cases where I was not sure, so I left them out. I have verified that no CONFIG_* symbols are used outside of __KERNEL__ any more and that there are no obvious compile errors when including any of the headers in user space libraries. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-19	powerpc: Trivially merge several headers from asm-ppc64 to asm-powerpc	Paul Mackerras	1	-0/+156
	For these, I have just done the lame-o merge where the file ends up looking like: #ifndef CONFIG_PPC64 #include <asm-ppc/foo.h> #else ... contents from asm-ppc64/foo.h #endif so nothing has changed, really, except that we reduce include/asm-ppc64 a bit more. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>