[PATCH 1/5] ARM: pgtable: switch order of Linux vs hardware page tables

[Catalin Marinas]

On 17 November 2010 17:28, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> This switches the ordering of the Linux vs hardware page tables in
> each page, thereby eliminating some of the arithmetic in the page
> table walks.  As we now place the Linux page table at the beginning
> of the page, we can deal with the offset in the pgt by simply masking
> it away, along with the other control bits.
[...]
> -static inline void __pmd_populate(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long pmdval)
> +static inline void __pmd_populate(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long pte, unsigned long prot)
>  {
> +       unsigned long pmdval = (pte + PTE_HWTABLE_OFF) | prot;

Since I'm introducing pmdval_t with LPAE patches, would it make sense
in your patch to pass pteval_t or I should just keep it in my patches?

-static inline void __pmd_populate(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long pmdval)
+static inline void __pmd_populate(pmd_t *pmdp, pteval_t pte, unsigned
long prot)

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Catalin