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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [yeeloong] Kernel support for non-4K pages
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2010/9/27 Vladimir '=F6-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>:
> On 09/27/2010 09:10 AM, Vladimir '=F6-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> Loongson CPUs have an annoying VIPT cache and 14 bits of virtual address
>> are used for tagging. So either we need an excessive and difficult to
>> maintain cache flushing or to use 16K or biger pages. Note than when
>> configuring Linux on Yeeloong only page size of 16K and 64K are proposed=
.
>> This patch fixes bunch of hardcoding of page size related constants and
>> changes PAGE_SHIFT to 14 on Yeeloong.

I'll see if I can get this to work on XLR also, thanks for splitting this o=
ut.

JC.