[PATCH V2 04/68] powerpc/mm: Use big endian page table for book3s 64

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 14:12 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>  /* Encode and de-code a swap entry */
>> @@ -516,10 +533,12 @@ static inline pte_t pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(pte_t
>> pte)
>>  {
>>         return __pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY);
>>  }
>
> These kind of setters (and mkspecial etc...) could also just OR
> the byteswapped constant to the raw PTE..
>

We seems to be doing the right thing w.r.t setters


static inline pte_t pte_mkdirty(pte_t pte)
{
        return __pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
     9d8:       ff ff 40 39     li      r10,-1
     9dc:       04 00 4a 79     rldicr  r10,r10,0,0
     9e0:       78 53 2a 7d     or      r10,r9,r10
}

-aneesh