Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: rename mm->nr_ptes to mm->nr_pgtables

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:36:23PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/13/2015 11:14 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >  	pgd_t * pgd;
> >  	atomic_t mm_users;			/* How many users with user space? */
> >  	atomic_t mm_count;			/* How many references to "struct mm_struct" (users count as 1) */
> > -	atomic_long_t nr_ptes;			/* Page table pages */
> > +	atomic_long_t nr_pgtables;		/* Page table pages */
> >  	int map_count;				/* number of VMAs */
> 
> One more crazy idea...
> 
> There are 2^9 possible pud pages, 2^18 pmd pages and 2^27 pte pages.
> That's only 54 bits (technically minus one bit each because the upper
> half of the address space is for the kernel).

Does this math make sense for all architecures? IA64? Power?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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