linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: use PTE

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Message-ID: <20080513101125.GA32299@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 12:11:25 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: use PTE_MASK consistently


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> Here's a series to rationalize the use of PTE_MASK and remove some 
> amount of ad-hocery.
> 
> This gist of the series is:
>  1. Fix the definition of PTE_MASK so that its equally applicable in
>     all pagetable modes
>  2. Use it consistently
> 
> I haven't tried to address the *_bad() stuff, other than to convert 
> pmd_bad_* to use PTE_MASK.
> 
> I've compile tested it a bit and run it on 32-bit PAE (native and 
> Xen), but I haven't tested it with >4G memory, non-PAE or 64-bit.  In 
> other words, it needs some time in Ingo's torture machine.

applied, thanks. This patchset has held up fine so far in overnight 
testing, nice work.

	Ingo
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