Re: [RFC] 4-level page table directories.

Robin Holt
2005-11-02T17:16:11Z

I think I will hold off on doing this for now. I think it is better done
as a seperate patch. I will happily try to tackle this once the direction
of 4-level PTDs is set, but until then, I think I want to skip this.

Thanks,
Robin

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:19:57PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
> Something I would really like is a small abstraction of some of the
> page table access macros to make it a little clearer as to what is
> happening. Besides which using '-3' in many places assumes the size
> of entries (of particular interest is the size of a PTE, which you
> might want to increase; I can't see why you would increase the upper
> levels).
>
> I'd like to see something like this go in, or possibly wrap it up with
> your changes. I also tried to make comments a little more explicit.