From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: chasing the four level page table
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:17:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e47339105010609175dabc381@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
The DRM driver contains this routine:
drivers/char/drm/drm_memory.h
static inline unsigned long
drm_follow_page (void *vaddr)
{
pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k((unsigned long) vaddr);
pud_t *pud = pud_offset(pgd, (unsigned long) vaddr);
pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, (unsigned long) vaddr);
pte_t *ptep = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, (unsigned long) vaddr);
return pte_pfn(*ptep) << PAGE_SHIFT;
}
No other driver needs to chase the page table like this so there is
probably some other way to achieve this. Can someone who knows more
about the VM system tell me if there is a way to eliminate this code?
If there are any VM/AGP experts with some free time, drm_memory.h
could use some rewriting to make it pass sparse checks.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 17:17 Jon Smirl [this message]
2005-01-06 18:12 ` chasing the four level page table Andi Kleen
2005-01-06 18:36 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-06 19:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-06 20:05 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-06 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2005-01-08 5:22 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-15 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-15 3:37 ` Roland Dreier
2005-01-15 4:24 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 5:59 ` Jon Smirl
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