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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-02-09 18:24:37 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-02-09 18:24:41 +0100
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[S390] dynamic page tables.
Add support for different number of page table levels dependent on the highest address used for a process. This will cause a 31 bit process to use a two level page table instead of the four level page table that is the default after the pud has been introduced. Likewise a normal 64 bit process will use three levels instead of four. Only if a process runs out of the 4 tera bytes which can be addressed with a three level page table the fourth level is dynamically added. Then the process can use up to 8 peta byte. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/include/asm-s390/mmu.h b/include/asm-s390/mmu.h
index 13ec4215f437..1698e29c5b20 100644
--- a/include/asm-s390/mmu.h
+++ b/include/asm-s390/mmu.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ typedef struct {
struct list_head crst_list;
struct list_head pgtable_list;
unsigned long asce_bits;
+ unsigned long asce_limit;
int noexec;
} mm_context_t;
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