On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:54:48PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > We could either have two u16 fields for the number of keys for data > > and instruction, or we could have a u32 field for the number of keys > > and a separate bit in the flags field to indicate that instruction > > keys are supported. Which would be preferable? > > the second choice is more confusion-proof; to me atleast. > > The first choice gives a illusion that there are 'x' number of data keys > and 'y' number of instruction keys; which is not exactly true.
Ah.. can you elaborate?
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