[patch] powerpc: implement pte_special for 64K pages
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jul 21 10:57:55 EST 2008
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 12:44 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> This can be folded into powerpc-implement-pte_special.patch
>
> --
> Ben has now freed up a pte bit on 64k pages. Use it for special pte bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin at suse.de>
> ---
Ack.
Andrew, will you merge this or do you want me to ?
Cheers,
Ben.
> Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-64k.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-64k.h 2008-07-17 18:53:03.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-64k.h 2008-07-17 20:30:06.000000000 +1000
> @@ -70,11 +70,12 @@
> #define PGDIR_MASK (~(PGDIR_SIZE-1))
>
> /* Additional PTE bits (don't change without checking asm in hash_low.S) */
> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
> +#define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x00000400 /* software: special page */
> #define _PAGE_HPTE_SUB 0x0ffff000 /* combo only: sub pages HPTE bits */
> #define _PAGE_HPTE_SUB0 0x08000000 /* combo only: first sub page */
> #define _PAGE_COMBO 0x10000000 /* this is a combo 4k page */
> #define _PAGE_4K_PFN 0x20000000 /* PFN is for a single 4k page */
> -#define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x0 /* don't have enough room for this yet */
>
> /* For 64K page, we don't have a separate _PAGE_HASHPTE bit. Instead,
> * we set that to be the whole sub-bits mask. The C code will only
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