Re: [RFC 3/8] powerpc/slb: Define macros for the bolted slots

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 12:28 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> From: "khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch defines macros for all the three bolted SLB slots. This also
> renames the 'create_shadowed_slb' function as 'new_shadowed_slb'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
> index 3842a54..cbeaaa2 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
>  #include <asm/udbg.h>
>  #include <asm/code-patching.h>
>  
> +#define SLOT_KLINR  0	/* kernel linear map  (0xc00000000) */

Call it LINEAR_SLOT ?

> +#define SLOT_KVIRT  1	/* kernel virtual map (0xd00000000) */

VMALLOC_SLOT

> +#define SLOT_KSTACK 2	/* kernel stack map   (0xf00000000) */

KSTACK_SLOT

And the comment is wrong, it's not 0xf00.., that's the vmemmap.


I know we're inconsistent about FOO_SLOT vs SLOT_FOO at times, but I think in
this case it reads better as FOO_SLOT.

Actually even better, make it an enum?

cheers