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

[Balbir Singh]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:26:15PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Consistency and not having our own bitmap implementation :) Anways,
I am not too held up on it.

> > Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
> > 
> 
> -aneesh
>