1. 28 Apr, 2006 3 commits
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc/pseries: Tell firmware our capabilities on new machines · f709bfac
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This adds code to call a new firmware method to tell the firmware
      what machines and capabilities (such as VMX/Altivec) we support.
      This will be needed on POWER5+ and POWER6 machines, and it has no
      effect on past and current machines.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f709bfac
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepages · f10a04c0
      David Gibson authored
      At present, ARCH=powerpc kernels can waste considerable space in
      pagetables when making large hugepage mappings.  Hugepage PTEs go in
      PMD pages, but each PMD page maps 256M and so contains only 16
      hugepage PTEs (128 bytes of data), but takes up a 1024 byte
      allocation.  With CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES enabled (64k base page size),
      the situation is worse.  Now hugepage PTEs are at the PTE page level
      (also mapping 256M), so we store 16 hugepage PTEs in a 64k allocation.
      
      The PowerPC MMU already means that any 256M region is either all
      hugepage, or all normal pages.  Thus, with some care, we can use a
      different allocation for the hugepage PTE tables and only allocate the
      128 bytes necessary.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f10a04c0
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 · 37e53db8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
        [IA64] update sn2 defconfig
        [IA64] Add mca recovery failure messages
        [IA64-SGI] fix SGI Altix tioce_reserve_m32() bug
        [IA64] enable dumps to capture second page of kernel stack
        [IA64-SGI] - Reduce overhead of reading sn_topology
        [IA64-SGI] - Fix discover of nearest cpu node to IO node
        [IA64] IOC4 config option ordering
        [IA64] Setup an IA64 specific reclaim distance
        [IA64] eliminate compile time warnings
        [IA64] eliminate compile time warnings
        [IA64-SGI] SN SAL call to inject memory errors
        [IA64] - Fix MAX_PXM_DOMAINS for systems with > 256 nodes
        [IA64] Remove unused variable in sn_sal.h
        [IA64] Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree
        [IA64] wire up compat_sys_adjtimex()
      37e53db8
  2. 27 Apr, 2006 37 commits