From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 01/11] mm: introduce hw_pte_t for PTE table storage
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:53:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41414c5b-e98a-4a55-ac87-ca982b248ca3@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6xah74eadjmo2bozyr62wcxo4hhpsiufx2mshh7tztyy2dzzps@63m327m7pl5u>
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On 31.07.26 07:49, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 05:46:52PM +0100, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> pte_t is used both for logical PTE values and for entries stored in a PTE
>> table, so pte_t * does not distinguish a pointer to a copied value from a
>> pointer to table storage.
>
> Should we rather call them as "Linux PTE" and "HW PTE" instead ?
What about "SW PTE"?
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-31 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-27 16:46 [PATCH RFC 00/11] mm: distinguish PTE table storage from PTE values Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 01/11] mm: introduce hw_pte_t for PTE table storage Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-28 14:48 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-31 5:49 ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-07-31 6:53 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2026-07-31 6:59 ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-07-31 10:19 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-31 13:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 02/11] mm: make hw_pte_t visible to generic PTE interfaces Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 03/11] mm: name pointers to copied PTE values ptentp Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 04/11] mm: use hw_pte_t for generic PTE table storage Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 05/11] mm: convert PTE table entries in ptep_get() Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-30 10:08 ` Alexander Gordeev
2026-07-30 10:11 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 10:24 ` Alexander Gordeev
2026-07-30 10:25 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 06/11] mm/kasan: use hw_pte_t for the early shadow PTE table Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 11:26 ` Alexander Gordeev
2026-07-30 13:11 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 07/11] mm/mremap: use ptep_get() for the destination PTE Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 11:29 ` Alexander Gordeev
2026-07-30 12:59 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 08/11] drm/i915: use hw_pte_t for PTE range callbacks Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:47 ` [PATCH RFC 09/11] misc/sgi-gru: use ptep_get() for page-table reads Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 17:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-29 12:36 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-07-29 12:42 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 17:03 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:47 ` [PATCH RFC 10/11] parisc: use hw_pte_t for the data-break callback Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:47 ` [PATCH RFC 11/11] xen: use hw_pte_t for PTE range callbacks Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 17:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-28 19:26 ` [PATCH RFC 00/11] mm: distinguish PTE table storage from PTE values David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 10:13 ` Alexander Gordeev
2026-07-29 11:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 11:33 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-29 11:52 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 12:21 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-29 12:28 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 11:44 ` Alexander Gordeev
2026-07-29 11:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-29 11:18 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 23:06 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for " Patchwork
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