linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: fix pmd

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jul 2022 11:22:06 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Hongchen Zhang <zhanghongchen@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: fix pmd_mkinvalid

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 04:11:35PM +0800, Hongchen Zhang wrote:
> When a pmd entry is invalidated by pmd_mkinvalid,pmd_present should
> return true.
> So introduce a _PMD_PRESENT_INVALID_SHIFT bit to check if a pmd is
> present but invalidated by pmd_mkinvalid.

What problem are you trying to fix ? What are the symptoms ?

> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>

the test robot showed problems with your last version of the patch,
which hasn't been integrated into at least the MIPS tree, so no
need to that.

Thomas.

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