From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: rename PTE_MASK to PTE_PFN_MASK
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:52:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4885F43B.7060307@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873am2kr4n.fsf@saeurebad.de>
Johannes Weiner wrote:
> PTE_PFN_MASK is not symmetric to PAGE_MASK.
No, it isn't. Is there anything about the name that suggests that it
should be? PTE_PFN_MASK is for operating on pteval_t-typed values
extracted from ptes; PAGE_MASK is for operating on addresses.
> How about PTE_PROT_MASK?
>
That's the opposite sense; the next patch defines it as PTE_FLAGS_MASK.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-22 4:31 [PATCH] x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest Rusty Russell
2008-07-22 4:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-22 4:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-22 4:52 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-22 4:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-22 5:40 ` [PATCH] x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest (updated) Rusty Russell
2008-07-22 5:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: rename PTE_MASK to PTE_PFN_MASK Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-22 8:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 10:58 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-22 11:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 13:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-22 14:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-07-22 15:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-22 15:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-22 15:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 15:43 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-22 5:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: add PTE_FLAGS_MASK Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-22 9:04 ` [PATCH] x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest (updated) Ingo Molnar
2008-07-23 0:59 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-24 11:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-25 1:55 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-28 15:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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