[PATCH v7 3/7] powerpc/mm: Introduce _PAGE_LARGE software pte bits

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 11:50:32 AEDT 2016



On 30/11/16 11:35, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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
> :-)
> 

I thought we were following Paul's suggestion here

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-November/151620.html
and I also noticed
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-November/151624.html

My bad, I thought we had two SW bits to use for DD1

Balbir Singh.


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