Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:11:14 +0300 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 05/34] c6x: mm: Add p?d_large() definitions |
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 12:01:37PM +0000, Steven Price wrote: > On 01/03/2019 21:48, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 05:05:39PM +0000, Steven Price 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 c6x there's no MMU so there's never a large page, so just add stubs. > > > > Other option would be to provide the stubs via generic headers form !MMU. > > > > I agree that could be done, but equally the definitions of > p?d_present/p?d_none/p?d_bad etc could be provided by a generic header > for !MMU but currently are not. It makes sense to keep the p?d_large > definitions next to the others. > > I'd prefer to stick with a (relatively) small change here - it's already > quite a long series! But this is certainly something that could be > tidied up for !MMU archs.
Agreed.
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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