Re: [PATCH] i386/PAE: fix pud_page()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 06:49:53 EST



* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To the unsuspecting user it is quite annoying that this broken and
> inconsistent with x86-64 definition still exists.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied, thanks Jan!

> -#define pud_page(pud) ((struct page *) __va(pud_val(pud) & PTE_PFN_MASK))
> +#define pud_page(pud) pfn_to_page(pud_val(pud) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> #define pud_page_vaddr(pud) ((unsigned long) __va(pud_val(pud) & PTE_PFN_MASK))
>
>
> /* Find an entry in the second-level page table.. */
> -#define pmd_offset(pud, address) ((pmd_t *)pud_page(*(pud)) + \
> +#define pmd_offset(pud, address) ((pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*(pud)) + \
> pmd_index(address))

we were quite lucky there. Despite being a cleanup i've put this into
x86/urgent - i agree that it's just too ugly and confusing.

Ingo
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