linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] ARM: mm: Print physical address of page table base in show

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Message-ID: <20210602104735.GI30436@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:47:35 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jungseung Lee <js07.lee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] ARM: mm: Print physical address of page table
 base in show_pte()

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 03:02:44PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> Now the show_pts() will dump the virtual (hashed) address of page
> table base, it is useless, let's print the page table base pointer
> as a physical address for debug.

I think we could probably get rid of this line - I think the last time
the PGD address was of use was a very long time ago.

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