Re: pud_bad vs pud_bad

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 13:44:46 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm looking at unifying the 32 and 64-bit versions of pud_bad.
>
> 32-bits defines it as:
>
> static inline int pud_bad(pud_t pud)
> {
> return (pud_val(pud) & ~(PTE_PFN_MASK | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER)) != 0;
> }
>
> and 64 as:
>
> static inline int pud_bad(pud_t pud)
> {
> return (pud_val(pud) & ~(PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_USER)) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
> }
>
>
> I'm inclined to go with the 64-bit version, but I'm wondering if there's
> something subtle I'm missing here.

Why go with the 64-bit version? The 32-bit check looks more compact and
should result in smaller code.

Ingo
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