[PATCH] ppc32: Allow adjust of pfn offset in pte

Kumar Gala galak at freescale.com
Fri Apr 8 05:26:05 EST 2005


Andrew,

Allow the pfn to be offset by more than just PAGE_SHIFT in the pte.  
Today, PAGE_SHIFT tends to allow us to have 12-bits of flags in the pte.  
In the future if we have a larger pte we can allocate more bits for flags 
by offsetting the pfn even further.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala at freescale.com>

---

diff -Nru a/include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h b/include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h
--- a/include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h	2005-04-07 14:25:07 -05:00
+++ b/include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h	2005-04-07 14:25:07 -05:00
@@ -431,10 +431,15 @@
  * Conversions between PTE values and page frame numbers.
  */
 
-#define pte_pfn(x)		(pte_val(x) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+/* in some case we want to additionaly adjust where the pfn is in the pte to
+ * allow room for more flags */
+#define PFN_SHIFT_OFFSET	(PAGE_SHIFT)
+
+#define pte_pfn(x)		(pte_val(x) >> PFN_SHIFT_OFFSET)
 #define pte_page(x)		pfn_to_page(pte_pfn(x))
 
-#define pfn_pte(pfn, prot)	__pte(((pte_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | pgprot_val(prot))
+#define pfn_pte(pfn, prot)	__pte(((pte_basic_t)(pfn) << PFN_SHIFT_OFFSET) |\
+					pgprot_val(prot))
 #define mk_pte(page, prot)	pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), prot)
 
 /*



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