Thread (53 messages) 53 messages, 10 authors, 2019-11-08

Re: [PATCH v8 11/27] x86/mm: Introduce _PAGE_DIRTY_SW

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2019-08-23 14:02:55
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:52:09PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
+static inline pte_t pte_move_flags(pte_t pte, pteval_t from, pteval_t to)
+{
+	if (pte_flags(pte) & from)
+		pte = pte_set_flags(pte_clear_flags(pte, from), to);
+	return pte;
+}
Aside of the whole conditional thing (I agree it would be better to have
this unconditionally); the function doesn't really do as advertised.

That is, if @from is clear, it doesn't endeavour to make sure @to is
also clear.

Now it might be sufficient, but in that case it really needs a comment
and or different name.

An implementation that actually moves the bit is something like:

	pteval_t a,b;

	a = native_pte_value(pte);
	b = (a >> from_bit) & 1;
	a &= ~((1ULL << from_bit) | (1ULL << to_bit));
	a |= b << to_bit;
	return make_native_pte(a);
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