linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/15] mm: don't abuse pte_index() in hmm_vma_handle

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Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 17:18:01 +0000
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org" <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] mm: don't abuse pte_index() in hmm_vma_handle_pmd

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 07:05:47PM +0300, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> pte_index is an internal arch helper in various architectures,
> without consistent semantics.  Open code that calculation of a PMD
> index based on the virtual address instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  mm/hmm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

There sure are a lot of different ways to express this, but this one
looks OK to me, at least the switch from the PTRS_PER_PTE expression
in the x86 imlpementation to PMD_MASK looks equivalent
 
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>

Jason