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author | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2008-02-09 18:24:37 +0100 |
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committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2008-02-09 18:24:41 +0100 |
commit | 6252d702c5311ce916caf75ed82e5c8245171c92 (patch) | |
tree | 3490f27b5f888ff2c1ec915d4e7201000f37a771 /security | |
parent | 5a216a20837c5f5fa1ca4b8ae8991ffd96b08e6f (diff) |
[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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