[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: Hugepages don't work on the Xen Linux git tree
On 04/19/2010 07:27 PM, Dave McCracken wrote: > The fix I have in older kernels is for set_huge_pte_at() to call set_pmd() > instead. However, in this brave new world of paravirt vectors, should I > instead set up a vector for it? What is the architecturally right thing to > do? However we decide to do it, expect a patch for it shortly afterward. > Yeah, its a bit awkward. A huge pte is semantically a pte, but structurally a pmd, so which should it be? The perhaps "cleanest" fix might be to add a set of huge pte operators, but I don't think that's really justified given that this is a fairly specific, narrow case. I think on balance the best thing is to make set_huge_pte_at() call set_pmd(). J _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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