[RFC PATCH 2/2] arm: mm: Double logical invert for LPAE pte_write(), pte_dirty()

[Steve Capper]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:28:12AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:55:13PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> > On LPAE, L_PTE_WRITE and L_PTE_DIRTY are in the upper 32-bits.
> > Unfortunately, results from pte_write() and pte_dirty() are downcast
> > to 32-bits by core code:
> >   o gather_stats
> >   o huge_pte_dirty
> >   o huge_pte_write
> >   o make_migration_entry
> > 
> > This patch adds a double logical invert to pte_write() and pte_dirty()
> > for LPAE to ensure that the lower 32-bits are set if true.
> 
> We should ensure all those functions return something which is compatible
> with "int" correctly.  It didn't matter for non-LPAE as the PTEs fit in
> 32-bit, but with LPAE, that really needs fixing independently of your
> other patch.

Agreed, I'm getting that written/tested now for arm and arm64.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve

> 
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