[PATCH v13 3/3] mm, powerpc, x86: introduce an additional vma bit for powerpc pkey
Dave Hansen
dave.hansen at intel.com
Sat May 5 14:42:39 AEST 2018
On 05/04/2018 06:12 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
>> That new line boils down to:
>>
>> [ilog2(0)] = "",
>>
>> on x86. It wasn't *obvious* to me that it is OK to do that. The other
>> possibly undefined bits (VM_SOFTDIRTY for instance) #ifdef themselves
>> out of this array.
>>
>> I would just be a wee bit worried that this would overwrite the 0 entry
>> ("??") with "".
> Yes it would :-( and could potentially break anything that depends on
> 0th entry being "??"
>
> Is the following fix acceptable?
>
> #if VM_PKEY_BIT4
> [ilog2(VM_PKEY_BIT4)] = "",
> #endif
Yep, I think that works for me.
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