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

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 14:47:08 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>,
	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>, airlied@...ux.ie,
	"Barnes, Jesse" <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: use PTE_MASK consistently

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I'll leave it to you and Linus whether your way of defining PTE_MASK is
> satisfactory as is, or needs to be improved to his way.  I've not tried
> his suggestion of doing the _PAGE_BIT definitions: certainly it's
> seemed odd to me that they were defined with L, but I've little
> appetite to mess around with them now myself.
>   

Yes, well, that was me too, with the intention of making ~_PAGE_FOO 
generate an appropriately sized mask.  I guess it would be better to use 
pteval_t these days.

    J
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