Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/8xx: Refactor calculation of number of entries per PTE in page tables
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 07:29:58 EST
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:30:43 +0000 (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> On 8xx, the number of entries occupied by a PTE in the page tables
> depends on the size of the page. At the time being, this calculation
> is done in two places: in pte_update() and in set_huge_pte_at()
>
> Refactor this calculation into a helper called
> number_of_cells_per_pte(). For the time being, the val param is
> unused. It will be used by following patch.
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/2] powerpc/8xx: Refactor calculation of number of entries per PTE in page tables
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/175a99991511fed16108dcb823f0af8e72325a1f
[2/2] powerpc/8xx: Support 16k hugepages with 4k pages
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e47168f3d1b14af5281cf50c59561d59d28201f9
cheers