Re: [PATCH 04/40] xen: document Xen is using an unused bit for the pagetables

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On 06/28/2012 08:55 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Xen has taken over the last reserved bit available for the pagetables
which is set through ioremap, this documents it and makes the code
more readable.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli<aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |   11 +++++++++--
  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 013286a..b74cac9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  #define _PAGE_BIT_PAT		7	/* on 4KB pages */
  #define _PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL	8	/* Global TLB entry PPro+ */
  #define _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED1	9	/* available for programmer */
-#define _PAGE_BIT_IOMAP		10	/* flag used to indicate IO mapping */
+#define _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED2	10

Considering that Xen is using it, it is not really
unused, is it?

Not that I can think of a better name, considering
you are using this bit for something else at the PMD
level...

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