Re: bisected boot regression post 2.6.25-rc3.. please revert

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I went through and made a bunch of these flags signed so that they would 
> sign-extend properly in 32 vs 64 bit.  We could make them 
> unconditionally 64-bit, but I'm worried that will have unforeseen 
> consequences too.
>
> In this case, PAGE_MASK should probably be signed too, so the sign 
> extension happens properly.

Yes, it should.

> Alternatively, they could be cast to pteval_t and/or phys_addr_t so that 
> they will have an inherent size which matches the pagetable format 
> (using _AT() rather than _AC()).

Either that, or we could use a custom constructor macro (PTEVAL_C()). 
This is arguably The Right Thing, but the sign-extending version is OK, too.

	-hpa
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