On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 03:51:41PM +, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> We could be is that worth the churn ?
Probably not.
> With patch 1 there was only one callsite.
Yes, you are right here.
> Here we have many callsites, and we also have huge_ptep_get_and_clear()
> which already takes three
Le 27/05/2024 à 13:19, Oscar Salvador a écrit :
> On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 11:22:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> On powerpc 8xx huge_ptep_get() will need to know whether the given
>> ptep is a PTE entry or a PMD entry. This cannot be known with the
>> PMD entry itself because there is no
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 11:22:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> On powerpc 8xx huge_ptep_get() will need to know whether the given
> ptep is a PTE entry or a PMD entry. This cannot be known with the
> PMD entry itself because there is no easy way to know it from the
> content of the entry.
>
On powerpc 8xx huge_ptep_get() will need to know whether the given
ptep is a PTE entry or a PMD entry. This cannot be known with the
PMD entry itself because there is no easy way to know it from the
content of the entry.
So huge_ptep_get() will need to know either the size of the page
or get the
