[PATCH v7 3/7] powerpc/mm: Introduce _PAGE_LARGE software pte bits
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 30 11:35:13 AEDT 2016
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 11:14 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > +#define _RPAGE_RSV1 0x1000000000000000UL
> > +#define _RPAGE_RSV2 0x0800000000000000UL
> > +#define _RPAGE_RSV3 0x0400000000000000UL
> > +#define _RPAGE_RSV4 0x0200000000000000UL
> > +
>
> We use the top 4 bits and not the _SW bits?
Correct, welcome to the discussion we've been having the last 2 weeks
:-)
We use those bits because we are otherwise short on SW bits (we still
need _PAGE_DEVMAP etc...). We know P9 DD1 is supposed to ignore the
reserved bits so it's a good place holder.
Cheers,
Ben.
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