On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:03:09AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 01/16/2018 08:36 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > + return (((ptr & ~PAGE_MASK) / sizeof(pgd_t)) < KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY);
> > > +}
> >
> > One of the reasons to implement it the other way:
> >
> > - return (ptr & ~PAGE_MASK) < (PAGE_SIZE / 2);
> >
> > is that the compiler can do this all quickly. KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY
> > depends on PAGE_OFFSET which depends on a variable. IOW, the compiler
> > can't do it.
> >
> > How much worse is the code that this generates?
>
> I havn't looked at the actual code this generates, but the
> (PAGE_SIZE / 2) comparison doesn't work on 32 bit where the address
> space is not always evenly split. I'll look into a better way to check
> this.
It should be trivial enough to do
return (ptr & ~PAGE_MASK) < PGD_SPLIT_SIZE);
and define it PAGE_SIZE/2 for 64bit and for PAE make it depend on the
configured address space split.
Thanks,
tglx
