Re: pud_bad vs pud_bad

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 13:55:02 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm looking at unifying the 32 and 64-bit versions of pud_bad.

32-bits defines it as:

static inline int pud_bad(pud_t pud)
{
return (pud_val(pud) & ~(PTE_PFN_MASK | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER)) != 0;
}

and 64 as:

static inline int pud_bad(pud_t pud)
{
return (pud_val(pud) & ~(PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_USER)) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
}


I'm inclined to go with the 64-bit version, but I'm wondering if there's something subtle I'm missing here.

Why go with the 64-bit version? The 32-bit check looks more compact and should result in smaller code.

Well, its stricter. But I don't really understand what condition its actually testing for.

J
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