[PATCH v3] powerpc/32s: reorder Linux PTE bits to better match Hash PTE bits.

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Mar 26 23:06:41 AEDT 2020


On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 17:29:12 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Reorder Linux PTE bits to (almost) match Hash PTE bits.
> 
> RW Kernel : PP = 00
> RO Kernel : PP = 00
> RW User   : PP = 01
> RO User   : PP = 11
> 
> So naturally, we should have
> _PAGE_USER = 0x001
> _PAGE_RW   = 0x002
> 
> Today 0x001 and 0x002 and _PAGE_PRESENT and _PAGE_HASHPTE which
> both are software only bits.
> 
> Switch _PAGE_USER and _PAGE_PRESET
> Switch _PAGE_RW and _PAGE_HASHPTE
> 
> This allows to remove a few insns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/697ece78f8f749aeea40f2711389901f0974017a

cheers


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