[PATCH 02/13] powerpc: hugetlb: fix huge_ptep_set_access_flags return value

Becky Bruce beckyb at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 30 03:52:06 EST 2011


On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:50 -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> index 8600493..70f9885 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> @@ -124,7 +124,18 @@ static inline int huge_ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> 					     unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
>> 					     pte_t pte, int dirty)
>> {
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MMU_NOHASH) && \
>> +	!(defined(CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E) && defined(CONFIG_PPC32))
> 
> The above conditional makes my brain hurt. Can you change that to
> instead
> 
> #ifdef HUGETLB_NEED_PRELOAD
> 
> ... or something like that, which you then #define in the right
> mmu-xxxx.h header ?

Sure.

Can I publish this as a followup instead of rebasing?  We're trying to stay sync'ed with what's in our BSP and it would be easier for me/Kumar to deal with.

Cheers,
B

> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
> 
>> +	/*
>> +	 * The "return 1" forces a call of update_mmu_cache, which will write a
>> +	 * TLB entry.  Without this, platforms that don't do a write of the TLB
>> +	 * entry in the TLB miss handler asm will fault ad infinitum.
>> +	 */
>> +	ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr, ptep, pte, dirty);
>> +	return 1;
>> +#else
>> 	return ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr, ptep, pte, dirty);
>> +#endif
>> }
>> 
>> static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get(pte_t *ptep)
> 



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