[PATCH] arm64/mm: Compute PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] independently of PTRS_PER_PTE

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Apr 22 06:45:30 PDT 2022


On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:40:09AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Possible page table entries (or pointers) on non-zero page table levels are
> dependent on a single page size i.e PAGE_SIZE and size required for each
> individual page table entry i.e 8 bytes. PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] as such are not
> related to PTRS_PER_PTE in any manner, as being implied currently. So lets
> just make this very explicit and compute these macros independently.

OTOH, we have lots of other assumptions about pmd etc. being updated
using the pte macros. Anyway, I'm fine with this.

-- 
Catalin



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