From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [RFC v5 01/38] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 4K backed HPTE pages Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:25:58 +1000 Message-ID: <1499412358.23251.7.camel@gmail.com> References: <1499289735-14220-1-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com> <1499289735-14220-2-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1499289735-14220-2-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Ram Pai , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com, arnd@arndb.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, corbet@lwn.net, mingo@redhat.com List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 14:21 -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > Rearrange 64K PTE bits to free up bits 3, 4, 5 and 6, > in the 4K backed HPTE pages.These bits continue to be used > for 64K backed HPTE pages in this patch, but will be freed > up in the next patch. The bit numbers are big-endian as > defined in the ISA3.0 > > The patch does the following change to the 4k htpe backed > 64K PTE's format. > The diagrams make the patch much easier to understand, thanks! > NOTE:even though bits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are not used when > the 64K PTE is backed by 4k HPTE, they continue to be > used if the PTE gets backed by 64k HPTE. The next > patch will decouple that aswell, and truely release the > bits. > Balbir Singh. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org