Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:16:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/10] x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit |
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Toshi Kani wrote:
> The PAT bit gets relocated to bit 12 when PUD and PMD mappings are > used. This bit 12, however, is not covered by PTE_FLAGS_MASK, which > is corrently used for masking pfn and flags for all cases. > > Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle pfn and flags properly by using > P?D_PAGE_MASK when PUD/PMD mappings are used, i.e. PSE bit is set.
Can you please split that into a patch introducing and describing the new mask helper functions and a second one making use of it?
Thanks,
tglx
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