Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: thp: Fix the update_mmu_cache() last argumentpassing in mm/huge_memory.c

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Sep 20 2012 - 15:32:07 EST


From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:44:01 +0100

> Just to clarify: do you want a cast from pmd_t * to pte_t * or instead copy
> the hugetlb code and pass ptes around instead of pmds? The latter is pretty
> invasive...

But will be necessary for SPARC64 and POWERPC where the hugetlb
entries are encoded at the PTE level.
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