22 Jun, 2005

1 commit

  • Currently ppc64 has two mm_structs for the kernel, init_mm and also
    ioremap_mm. The latter really isn't necessary: this patch abolishes it,
    instead restricting vmallocs to the lower 1TB of the init_mm's range and
    placing io mappings in the upper 1TB. This simplifies the code in a number
    of places and eliminates an unecessary set of pagetables. It also tweaks
    the unmap/free path a little, allowing us to remove the unmap_im_area() set
    of page table walkers, replacing them with unmap_vm_area().

    Signed-off-by: David Gibson
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Gibson
     

06 May, 2005

1 commit

  • This patch started as simply removing a few never-used macros from
    asm-ppc64/pgtable.h, then kind of grew. It now makes a bunch of
    cleanups to the ppc64 low-level header files (with corresponding
    changes to .c files where necessary) such as:
    - Abolishing never-used macros
    - Eliminating multiple #defines with the same purpose
    - Removing pointless macros (cases where just expanding the
    macro everywhere turns out clearer and more sensible)
    - Removing some cases where macros which could be defined in
    terms of each other weren't
    - Moving imalloc() related definitions from pgtable.h to their
    own header file (imalloc.h)
    - Re-arranging headers to group things more logically
    - Moving all VSID allocation related things to mmu.h, instead
    of being split between mmu.h and mmu_context.h
    - Removing some reserved space for flags from the PMD - we're
    not using it.
    - Fix some bugs which broke compile with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS.

    Signed-off-by: David Gibson
    Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Gibson