From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 02/29] powerpc/mm: Split pgtable types to separate header
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:42:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ziv5qjmc.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160212025238.GC13831@oak.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:50:14PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> We remove real_pte_t out of STRICT_MM_TYPESCHECK. We will later add
>> a radix variant that is big endian
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> It looks like most of what this patch does is move a bunch of
> definitions from page.h to a new pgtable-types.h. What is the
> motivation for this? Is the code identical (pure code movement) or do
> you make changes along the way, and if so, what and why?
The motivation is to assist in addition of a big endian page table format later.
>
> What exactly are you doing with real_pte_t and why?
Want to avoint STRICT_MM_TYPESCHECK related #ifdef around real_pte_t. I
can split that into a separate patch and keep this patch strictly code
movement.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-13 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 9:20 [PATCH V2 00/29] Book3s abstraction in preparation for new MMU model Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 01/29] powerpc/mm: add _PAGE_HASHPTE similar to 4K hash Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-12 2:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-13 5:08 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 02/29] powerpc/mm: Split pgtable types to separate header Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-12 2:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-13 5:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 03/29] powerpc/mm: Switch book3s 64 with 64K page size to 4 level page table Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 04/29] powerpc/mm: Copy pgalloc (part 1) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 05/29] powerpc/mm: Copy pgalloc (part 2) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-12 3:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-15 5:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 06/29] powerpc/mm: Copy pgalloc (part 3) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 07/29] mm: Make vm_get_page_prot arch specific Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-15 3:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-15 4:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 08/29] mm: Some arch may want to use HPAGE_PMD related values as variables Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-15 4:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-16 8:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 09/29] powerpc/mm: Hugetlbfs is book3s_64 and fsl_book3e (32 or 64) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-15 5:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-16 8:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 10/29] powerpc/mm: free_hugepd_range split to hash and nonhash Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 11/29] powerpc/mm: Use helper instead of opencoding Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 12/29] powerpc/mm: Move hash64 specific defintions to seperate header Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-15 5:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-16 8:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 13/29] powerpc/mm: Move swap related definition ot hash64 header Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 14/29] powerpc/mm: Move hash page table related functions to pgtable-hash64.c Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 15/29] powerpc/mm: Rename hash specific page table bits (_PAGE* -> H_PAGE*) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 16/29] powerpc/mm: Use flush_tlb_page in ptep_clear_flush_young Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 17/29] powerpc/mm: THP is only available on hash64 as of now Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 18/29] powerpc/mm: Use generic version of pmdp_clear_flush_young Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 19/29] powerpc/mm: Create a new headers for tlbflush for hash64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 20/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for page table accessors Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 21/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for functions in pgtable-hash.c Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 22/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for mmu context handling code Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 23/29] powerpc/mm: Move hash related mmu-*.h headers to book3s/ Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 24/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstractions for early init routines Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 25/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for THP Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 26/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for HugeTLB Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 27/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for page table allocator Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 28/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for tlbflush routines Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-08 9:20 ` [PATCH V2 29/29] powerpc/mm: Hash linux abstraction for pte swap encoding Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-09 13:22 ` [PATCH V2 00/29] Book3s abstraction in preparation for new MMU model Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-23 1:59 ` Scott Wood
2016-02-23 2:17 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-12 4:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-13 5:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-13 8:39 ` Denis Kirjanov
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