linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Compute PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] independently of PTRS_PER

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Message-Id: <165065206268.1611310.15902401003988061413.b4-ty@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:27:46 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Compute PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] independently of PTRS_PER_PTE

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 09:40:09 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Possible page table entries (or pointers) on non-zero page table levels are
> dependent on a single page size i.e PAGE_SIZE and size required for each
> individual page table entry i.e 8 bytes. PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] as such are not
> related to PTRS_PER_PTE in any manner, as being implied currently. So lets
> just make this very explicit and compute these macros independently.
> 
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/mm: Compute PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] independently of PTRS_PER_PTE
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/2a2848e7c2fd

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Catalin