[RFC PATCH 2/3] arch/powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jan 31 00:18:35 EST 2013
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This make one PMD cover 16MB range. That helps in easier implementation of THP
on power. THP core code make use of one pmd entry to track the huge page and
the range mapped by a single pmd entry should be equal to the huge page size
supported by the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h
index be4e287..3c529b4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
#include <asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h>
-#define PTE_INDEX_SIZE 12
+#define PTE_INDEX_SIZE 8
#define PMD_INDEX_SIZE 12
#define PUD_INDEX_SIZE 0
-#define PGD_INDEX_SIZE 6
+#define PGD_INDEX_SIZE 10
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#define PTE_TABLE_SIZE (sizeof(real_pte_t) << PTE_INDEX_SIZE)
--
1.7.10
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