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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: your "x86: mm: convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range" change
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 15:18:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200512131857.GI2978@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d95d756d-e940-d81e-d6ca-e45054df72c4@arm.com>

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:02:51PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> > Additionally I'd like to note that note_page()'s "unsigned long val"
> > parameter isn't wide enough for 32-bit PAE PTEs, and hence the NX
> > flag will always be seen as clear in new_prot in such configs.
> 
> Ah, interesting. I'm not sure what type is actually guaranteed to be
> correct. pgprotval_t is x86 specific, but it might be necessary to extend it
> to other architectures. I think I got the "unsigned long" from the generic
> page.h (and because it happens to work on most architectures) - but hadn't
> noticed that that file was specifically only for NOMMU architectures.

unsigned long long should cover the i386-PAE / ARMv7-LPAE cases. I
can't, from teh top of my head, remember if there's anybody else who has
a longer PTE.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-12 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-12  9:39 your "x86: mm: convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range" change Jan Beulich
2020-05-12 13:02 ` Steven Price
2020-05-12 13:09   ` Jan Beulich
2020-05-12 13:18   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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