On 29/04/2019 03:05, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Steven Price wrote: >> Since pmd_large() is now always available, pmd_is_leaf() is redundant. >> Replace all uses with calls to pmd_large(). > > NAK. I don't want to do this, because pmd_is_leaf() is purely about > the guest page tables (the "partition-scoped" radix tree which > specifies the guest physical to host physical translation), not about > anything to do with the Linux process page tables. The guest page > tables have the same format as the Linux process page tables, but they > are managed separately. Fair enough, I'll drop this patch in the next posting. > If it makes things clearer, I could rename it to "guest_pmd_is_leaf()" > or something similar. I'll leave that decision up to you - it might prevent similar confusion in the future. Steve
