From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -V2 03/21] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:47:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87621jc8cq.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130222050607.GC6139@drongo>
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:17:10PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> USE PTRS_PER_PTE to indicate the size of pte page.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page
>>
>> USE PTRS_PER_PTE to indicate the size of pte page.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Description and signoff are duplicated. Description could be more
> informative, for example - why would we want to do this?
>
>> +/*
>> + * hidx is in the second half of the page table. We use the
>> + * 8 bytes per each pte entry.
>
> The casual reader probably wouldn't know what "hidx" is. The comment
> needs at least to use a better name than "hidx".
how about
+/*
+ * We save the slot number & secondary bit in the second half of the
+ * PTE page. We use the 8 bytes per each pte entry.
+ */
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-23 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-21 16:47 [RFC PATCH -V2 00/21] THP support for PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 01/21] powerpc: Use signed formatting when printing error Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 02/21] powerpc: Save DAR and DSISR in pt_regs on MCE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 03/21] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-23 16:17 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 04/21] powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 05/21] powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 0:32 ` David Gibson
2013-02-22 5:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-22 17:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-23 16:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 06/21] powerpc: Add size argument to pgtable_cache_add Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 07/21] powerpc: Use encode avpn where we need only avpn values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 08/21] powerpc: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-22 5:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-24 16:51 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-24 17:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 09/21] powerpc: Update tlbie/tlbiel as per ISA doc Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 10/21] powerpc: print both base and actual page size on hash failure Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 11/21] powerpc: Print page size info during boot Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 12/21] powerpc: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 13/21] mm/THP: HPAGE_SHIFT is not a #define on some arch Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 14/21] mm/THP: Add pmd args to pgtable deposit and withdraw APIs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 15/21] mm/THP: support for zerout withdraw Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 16/21] powerpc/THP: Implement transparent huge pages for ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 17/21] powerpc/THP: Differentiate THP PMD entries from HUGETLB PMD entries Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 18/21] powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for large pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 19/21] powerpc/THP: hypervisor require few WIMG bit set Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 20/21] powerpc/THP: get_user_pages_fast changes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-21 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 21/21] powerpc/THP: Enable THP on PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-21 8:17 ` [RFC PATCH -V2 00/21] THP support for PPC64 Simon Jeons
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