[PATCH] powerpc/mm: move setting pte specific flags to pfn_pmd

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Nov 25 22:57:39 AEDT 2020


On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:41:15 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> powerpc used to set the pte specific flags in set_pte_at().  This is
> different from other architectures. To be consistent with other
> architecture powerpc updated pfn_pte to set _PAGE_PTE with
> commit 379c926d6334 ("powerpc/mm: move setting pte specific flags to pfn_pte")
> 
> The commit didn't do the same w.r.t pfn_pmd because we expect pmd_mkhuge
> to do that. But as per Linus that is a bad rule [1].
> Hence update pfn_pmd to set _PAGE_PTE.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/mm: Move setting PTE specific flags to pfn_pmd()
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/53f45ecc9cd04b4b963f3040f2a54c3baf03b229

cheers


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