large page support for IOP331

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Feb 24 04:11:11 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:30:30PM +0530, Prashant Bhole wrote:
> Is there any support of large page for arm architecture?

The short answer is no.

The long answer is that to have 16K pages, it causes bigger problems
with the 2nd level page tables, which from the hardware perspective
are only 256 per L1 entry, but are required to be in unique pages.



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