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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Satya <satyakiran@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pte_offset_map for ppc assumes HIGHPTE
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:18:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewswodqcn.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acbcf3840707251516w301f834cj5f6a81a494d359ed@mail.gmail.com> (Satya's message of "Wed\, 25 Jul 2007 17\:16\:01 -0500")

Satya <satyakiran@gmail.com> writes:

> hello,
> The implementation of pte_offset_map() for ppc assumes that PTEs are
> kept in highmem (CONFIG_HIGHPTE). There is only one implmentation of
> pte_offset_map() as follows (include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h):
>
> #define pte_offset_map(dir, addr)               \
>          ((pte_t *) kmap_atomic(pmd_page(*(dir)), KM_PTE0) + pte_index(addr))
>
> Shouldn't this be made conditional according to CONFIG_HIGHPTE is
> defined or not

kmap_atomic is always defined with or without CONFIG_HIGHPTE.

> (as implemented in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h) ?

I don't think that needs it either.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 22:16 Satya
2007-07-25 23:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-25 23:18 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-07-25 23:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-25 23:30     ` Dave McCracken
2007-07-26  0:18       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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