Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 4 authors, 2013-03-21

Re: [RFC PATCH -V2 03/21] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page

From: Paul Mackerras <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-22 05:38:54
Also in: linux-mm

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:17:10PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <redacted>

USE PTRS_PER_PTE to indicate the size of pte page.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
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 <redacted>
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".

Paul.
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