Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: use PTE_MASK consistently

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 06:11:55 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's a series to rationalize the use of PTE_MASK and remove some
> amount of ad-hocery.
>
> This gist of the series is:
> 1. Fix the definition of PTE_MASK so that its equally applicable in
> all pagetable modes
> 2. Use it consistently
>
> I haven't tried to address the *_bad() stuff, other than to convert
> pmd_bad_* to use PTE_MASK.
>
> I've compile tested it a bit and run it on 32-bit PAE (native and
> Xen), but I haven't tested it with >4G memory, non-PAE or 64-bit. In
> other words, it needs some time in Ingo's torture machine.

applied, thanks. This patchset has held up fine so far in overnight
testing, nice work.

Ingo
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