From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759254AbYEMKLw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 06:11:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753945AbYEMKLn (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 06:11:43 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:46335 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753941AbYEMKLn (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 06:11:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:11:25 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: use PTE_MASK consistently Message-ID: <20080513101125.GA32299@elte.hu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Here's a series to rationalize the use of PTE_MASK and remove some > amount of ad-hocery. > > This gist of the series is: > 1. Fix the definition of PTE_MASK so that its equally applicable in > all pagetable modes > 2. Use it consistently > > I haven't tried to address the *_bad() stuff, other than to convert > pmd_bad_* to use PTE_MASK. > > I've compile tested it a bit and run it on 32-bit PAE (native and > Xen), but I haven't tested it with >4G memory, non-PAE or 64-bit. In > other words, it needs some time in Ingo's torture machine. applied, thanks. This patchset has held up fine so far in overnight testing, nice work. Ingo