On 8/15/24 12:50 AM, LEROY Christophe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 30/07/2024 à 08:46, al...@kernel.org a écrit :
>> From: Alex Shi
>>
>> We have struct ptdesc for page table descriptor a year ago, but it
>> has no much usages in kernel, while pgtable_t is used widely.
>>
>> The pgtable_t is typedefed
On 8/15/24 1:13 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 02:46:54PM +0800, al...@kernel.org wrote:
>> We have struct ptdesc for page table descriptor a year ago, but it
>> has no much usages in kernel, while pgtable_t is used widely.
>
> Hum, I thought I responded to this to point ou
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 02:46:54PM +0800, al...@kernel.org wrote:
> We have struct ptdesc for page table descriptor a year ago, but it
> has no much usages in kernel, while pgtable_t is used widely.
Hum, I thought I responded to this to point out the problem, but
I don't see the response anywhere,
Hi,
Le 30/07/2024 à 08:46, al...@kernel.org a écrit :
> From: Alex Shi
>
> We have struct ptdesc for page table descriptor a year ago, but it
> has no much usages in kernel, while pgtable_t is used widely.
>
> The pgtable_t is typedefed as 'pte_t *' in sparc, s390, powerpc and m68k
> except SUN
BTW, the patchset based on the latest
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm mm-unstable branch.
On 7/30/24 2:46 PM, al...@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Alex Shi
>
> We have struct ptdesc for page table descriptor a year ago, but it
> has no much usages in kernel, while pgtable_t is
From: Alex Shi
We have struct ptdesc for page table descriptor a year ago, but it
has no much usages in kernel, while pgtable_t is used widely.
The pgtable_t is typedefed as 'pte_t *' in sparc, s390, powerpc and m68k
except SUN3, others archs are all same as 'struct page *'.
These blocks the co
