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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 09/34] m68k: mm: Add p?d_large() definitions
Hi Mike,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:37 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:07 PM Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> wrote:
> > > walk_page_range() is going to be allowed to walk page tables other than
> > > those of user space. For this it needs to know when it has reached a
> > > 'leaf' entry in the page tables. This information is provided by the
> > > p?d_large() functions/macros.
> > >
> > > For m68k, we don't support large pages, so add stubs returning 0
> > >
> > > CC: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > > CC: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > > arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h | 2 ++
> > > arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgtable.h | 2 ++
> > > arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_no.h | 1 +
> > > arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3_pgtable.h | 2 ++
> > > 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > If the definitions are the same, why not add them to
> > arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable.h instead?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why the stubs have to be defined in
> arch/*/include/asm/pgtable.h rather than in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h?

That would even make more sense, given most architectures don't
support huge pages.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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