Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: fix regression with huge pages on PAE

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
> I have this dim memory of us playing around with just making PAGE_SIZE
> (and thus PAGE_MASK) always be signed, but that it caused other
> problems. Signed types have downsides too.

FWIW, I ran into this recently with the pfn_t patch.  mips and powerpc
have PAGE_MASK as a signed int.
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