On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 01:18 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hello, > > The implementation of pte_offset_map() for ppc assumes that PTEs are > > kept in highmem (CONFIG_HIGHPTE). There is only one implmentation of > > pte_offset_map() as follows (include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h): > > > > #define pte_offset_map(dir, addr) \ > > ((pte_t *) kmap_atomic(pmd_page(*(dir)), KM_PTE0) + > > pte_index(addr)) > > > > Shouldn't this be made conditional according to CONFIG_HIGHPTE is > > defined or not > > kmap_atomic is always defined with or without CONFIG_HIGHPTE. > > > (as implemented in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h) ? > > I don't think that needs it either.
Depends... if you have CONFIG_HIGHMEM and not CONFIG_HIGHPTE, you are wasting time going through kmap_atomic unnecessarily no ? it will probably not do anything because the PTE page is in lowmem but still... Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
