Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932512AbWARARg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:17:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932515AbWARARg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:17:36 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:30175 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932512AbWARARd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:17:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Shared page tables From: Dave Hansen To: Robin Holt Cc: Dave McCracken , Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linux Memory Management In-Reply-To: <20060117235302.GA22451@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> References: <20060117235302.GA22451@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:17:30 -0800 Message-Id: <1137543450.27951.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:53 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > This appears to work on ia64 with the attached patch. Could you > send me any test application you think would be helpful for me > to verify it is operating correctly? I could not get the PTSHARE_PUD > to compile. I put _NO_ effort into it. I found the following line > was invalid and quit trying. ... > +config PTSHARE > + bool "Share page tables" > + default y > + help > + Turn on sharing of page tables between processes for large shared > + memory regions. ... These are probably best put in mm/Kconfig, especially if you're going to have verbatim copies in each architecture. -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/