[RFC v3 02/23] powerpc: introduce set_hidx_slot helper

Ram Pai linuxram at us.ibm.com
Tue Jun 27 10:17:27 AEST 2017


On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:02:58PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 09:03 +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 18:39 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> > > Introduce set_hidx_slot() which sets the (H_PAGE_F_SECOND|H_PAGE_F_GIX)
> > > bits at  the  appropriate  location  in  the  PTE  of  4K  PTE.  In the
> > > case of 64K PTE, it sets the bits in the second part of the PTE. Though
> > > the implementation for the former just needs the slot parameter, it does
> > > take some additional parameters to keep the prototype consistent.
> > > 
> > > This function will come in handy as we  work  towards  re-arranging the
> > > bits in the later patches.
> 
> The name somewhat sucks. Something like pte_set_hash_slot() or
> something like that would be much more meaningful.

ok. pte_set_hash_slot() sounds good.
RP



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