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Commit 6252d702 authored by Martin Schwidefsky's avatar Martin Schwidefsky
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[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: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent 5a216a20
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