[RFC PATCH 5/9] powerpc/mm/book3s-64: Move _PAGE_PTE to 2nd most significant bit

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Sat Feb 20 17:12:36 AEDT 2016


This changes _PAGE_PTE for 64-bit Book 3S processors from 0x1 to
0x4000_0000_0000_0000, because that bit is used as the L (leaf)
bit by PowerISA v3.0 CPUs in radix mode.  The "leaf" bit indicates
that the PTE points to a page directly rather than another radix
level, which is what the _PAGE_PTE bit means.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
index 72ea557..8f077c1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
  * We could create separate kernel read-only if we used the 3 PP bits
  * combinations that newer processors provide but we currently don't.
  */
-#define _PAGE_PTE		0x00001	/* distinguishes PTEs from pointers */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_SWAP_TYPE	2
 #define _PAGE_USER		0x00004 /* page may be accessed by userspace */
 #define _PAGE_EXEC		0x00008 /* execute permission */
@@ -38,6 +37,7 @@
 #define _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY	0x00000
 #endif
 
+#define _PAGE_PTE		(1ul << 62)	/* distinguishes PTEs from pointers */
 #define _PAGE_PRESENT		(1ul << 63)	/* pte contains a translation */
 
 /*
-- 
2.5.0



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