Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 5 authors, 2016-11-30

Re: [PATCH v7 3/7] powerpc/mm: Introduce _PAGE_LARGE software pte bits

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2016-11-30 00:35:32

On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 11:14 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
quoted
+#define _RPAGE_RSV1          0x1000000000000000UL
+#define _RPAGE_RSV2          0x0800000000000000UL
+#define _RPAGE_RSV3          0x0400000000000000UL
+#define _RPAGE_RSV4          0x0200000000000000UL
+
We use the top 4 bits and not the _SW bits?
Correct, welcome to the discussion we've been having the last 2 weeks
:-)

We use those bits because we are otherwise short on SW bits (we still
need _PAGE_DEVMAP etc...). We know P9 DD1 is supposed to ignore the
reserved bits so it's a good place holder.

Cheers,
Ben.
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