[PATCH V3 01/10] powerpc/mm/slice: Convert slice_mask high slice to a bitmap

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Feb 21 17:56:15 AEDT 2017



On Tuesday 21 February 2017 10:13 AM, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 03:37:08PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> In followup patch we want to increase the va range which will result
>> in us requiring high_slices to have more than 64 bits. To enable this
>> convert high_slices to bitmap. We keep the number bits same in this patch
>> and later change that to higher value
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
> For consistency it would be nice to have low_slices represented similarly
> as well.

That will need converting lot of low_slices update to bitmap api with no 
real benefit
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
>

-aneesh



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