[PATCH] S/390: Add pgste marker

Andreas Krebbel krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jun 22 10:41:00 GMT 2017


On 06/22/2017 11:39 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
>> This patch adds a new S/390 specific segment type: PT_S390_PGSTE.  For
>> binaries marked with that segment the kernel will allocate 4k page
>> tables.  The only user so far will be qemu.
> 
> No objections from me.
> 
> Quick question - is this worth an entry in the ld/NEWS file ?

Probably not.  I cannot imagine that there will be other users apart from qemu. So it is very
special purpose.

-Andreas-



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