On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:38:39AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 13:57 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING > > +/* > > + * These work without NUMA balancing but the kernel does not care. See the > > + * comment in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h > > + */ > > +static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte) > > +{ > > + return (pte_val(pte) & > > + (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER)) == _PAGE_PRESENT; > > +} > > I would add a comment clarifying that this only works for user pages, > ie, this accessor will always return "true" for a kernel page on ppc. > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h index 490bd6d..7b889a3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ static inline pgprot_t pte_pgprot(pte_t pte) { return __pgprot(pte_val(pte) & PA #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING /* * These work without NUMA balancing but the kernel does not care. See the - * comment in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h + * comment in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h . On powerpc, this will only + * work for user pages and always return true for kernel pages. */ static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte) { -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>