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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
commit6252d702c5311ce916caf75ed82e5c8245171c92 (patch)
tree3490f27b5f888ff2c1ec915d4e7201000f37a771 /security
parent5a216a20837c5f5fa1ca4b8ae8991ffd96b08e6f (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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