Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning

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From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 11:58 am

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Dave Hansen wrote:

Like it or not, the pgd/pud/pmd/pte hierarchy cannot be assumed once
you're amongst hugepages.  What happens varies from architecture to
architecture.  Perhaps the hugepage specialists could look at what
in fact the different architectures we know today are doing, and
come up with a better abstraction to encompass them all.  But it's
simply wrong for a "generic" pagewalker to be going blindly in there.

Two good examples in the same file??

Hugh
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Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Jeff Chua, (Mon May 5, 6:06 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Ingo Molnar, (Tue May 6, 5:49 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 6:56 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Ingo Molnar, (Tue May 6, 8:04 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Linus Torvalds, (Tue May 6, 8:09 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Ingo Molnar, (Tue May 6, 8:15 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue May 6, 8:32 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 9:12 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Linus Torvalds, (Tue May 6, 9:16 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Ingo Molnar, (Tue May 6, 9:30 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Linus Torvalds, (Tue May 6, 11:39 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 12:43 pm)
[PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 12:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Linus Torvalds, (Tue May 6, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Tue May 6, 1:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 1:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 1:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Tue May 6, 1:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Jeff Chua, (Tue May 6, 9:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hugh Dickins, (Tue May 6, 10:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Nishanth Aravamudan, (Wed May 7, 4:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Thu May 8, 7:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Thu May 8, 7:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 7:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Thu May 8, 8:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Nishanth Aravamudan, (Thu May 8, 8:44 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 8:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Nishanth Aravamudan, (Thu May 8, 9:07 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Thu May 8, 9:19 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Nishanth Aravamudan, (Thu May 8, 9:33 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 9:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Thu May 8, 9:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Nishanth Aravamudan, (Thu May 8, 10:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 11:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hugh Dickins, (Thu May 8, 11:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hugh Dickins, (Thu May 8, 11:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 12:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Matt Mackall, (Thu May 8, 12:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Hans Rosenfeld, (Thu May 8, 1:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 1:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 1:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Dave Hansen, (Thu May 8, 4:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Paul Mundt, (Fri May 9, 2:03 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning, Matt Mackall, (Wed May 14, 12:01 pm)