[PATCH v2 08/20] ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level page table format

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Nov 23 12:33:19 EST 2010


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:38:15AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 22 November 2010 13:10, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Are you sure these shifts by 18 places are correct?  They're actually
> > (val >> SECTION_SHIFT) << 2, so maybe they should be (SECTION_SHIFT -
> > PMD_WORDS) ?
> 
> SECTION_SHIFT - PMD_ORDER is (20 - 2) for classic page tables and (21
> - 3) for LPAE. But we could change the 18 to some macros for
> clarification (the line would be long though).

So yes, it's SECTION_SHIFT - PMD_ORDER, which is how they should be
used IMHO.  I don't see why another macro would be necessary.



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