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David S. Miller
3c93646524 [SPARC64]: Kill pgtable quicklists and use SLAB.
Taking a nod from the powerpc port.

With the per-cpu caching of both the page allocator and SLAB, the
pgtable quicklist scheme becomes relatively silly and primitive.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:14 -08:00
David S. Miller
05e28f9de6 [SPARC64]: No need to D-cache color page tables any longer.
Unlike the virtual page tables, the new TSB scheme does not
require this ugly hack.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:13 -08:00
David S. Miller
74bf4312ff [SPARC64]: Move away from virtual page tables, part 1.
We now use the TSB hardware assist features of the UltraSPARC
MMUs.

SMP is currently knowingly broken, we need to find another place
to store the per-cpu base pointers.  We hid them away in the TSB
base register, and that obviously will not work any more :-)

Another known broken case is non-8KB base page size.

Also noticed that flush_tlb_all() is not referenced anywhere, only
the internal __flush_tlb_all() (local cpu only) is used by the
sparc64 port, so we can get rid of flush_tlb_all().

The kernel gets it's own 8KB TSB (swapper_tsb) and each address space
gets it's own private 8K TSB.  Later we can add code to dynamically
increase the size of per-process TSB as the RSS grows.  An 8KB TSB is
good enough for up to about a 4MB RSS, after which the TSB starts to
incur many capacity and conflict misses.

We even accumulate OBP translations into the kernel TSB.

Another area for refinement is large page size support.  We could use
a secondary address space TSB to handle those.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:13 -08:00
David S. Miller
6a9b490d5f [SPARC64]: Move DCACHE_ALIASING_POSSIBLE define to asm/page.h
This showed that arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c was not getting
the define properly, and thus the code protected by this ifdef
was never actually compiled before.  So fix that too.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-19 20:11:57 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
8edf72ebce [SPARC64]: Kill useless __pte_alloc_one_kernel indirection
warning: untested, but it there's not too much chance for screwups

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 14:27:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00