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Re: [RFC v5 01/38] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 4K backed HPTE pages

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On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 14:21 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> Rearrange 64K PTE bits to  free  up  bits 3, 4, 5  and  6,
> in the 4K backed HPTE pages.These bits continue to be used
> for 64K backed HPTE pages in this patch, but will be freed
> up in the next patch. The  bit  numbers are big-endian  as
> defined in the ISA3.0
> 
> The patch does the following change to the 4k htpe backed
> 64K PTE's format.
>

The diagrams make the patch much easier to understand, thanks!

<snip>
 
> NOTE:even though bits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are  not  used  when
> the  64K  PTE is backed by 4k HPTE,  they continue to be
> used  if  the  PTE  gets  backed  by 64k HPTE.  The next
> patch will decouple that aswell, and truely  release the
> bits.
>

<snip>

Balbir Singh. 

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[RFC v5 01/38] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 4K backed HPTE pages Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> - 2017-07-05 23:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC v5 01/38] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 4K backed  HPTE pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 09:30 +0200

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