[PATCH 1/7] Add various hugetlb arm high level hooks

bill4carson bill4carson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 19:35:36 EST 2012



On 2012年02月29日 23:38, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:28:30AM +0000, bill4carson wrote:
>> On 2012年02月29日 18:32, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:44:22AM +0000, Bill Carson wrote:
>>>> +static inline void huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
>>>> +					   unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	pte_t old_pte = *ptep;
>>>> +	set_huge_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte_wrprotect(old_pte));
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> You could use the generic ptep_set_wrprotect()
>>
>> I'm a bit of confused about this.
>>
>> generic ptep_set_wrprotect() can not set huge pte, that's why
>> set_huge_pte_at is used instead here.
>
> Ah, the generic one can only work with with LPAE where set_huge_pte_at()
> is just a set_pte_at(). So this part looks good.
>
Hi, Catalin

Thanks for your time to review PATCH1/7 :)

I'm wondering if reset of this patch set is ok,
I would like to start working on V3 as per your comments.



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--bill



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