On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Phil Thompson wrote:
> - USER_PTRS_PER_PGD is defined as TASK_SIZE/PGDIR_SIZE. However,
> because, TASK_SIZE is actually defined as one less that the maximum task
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> size there is a rounding error that means that USER_PTRS_PER_PGD works
^^^^
> out at 511 rather than 512. This means that entries 511 and 1023 of
> swapper_pg_dir don't get initialised.
>
> The corresponding mips64 code has only the first call to pgd_init() and
> each implementation of pgd_init() initialises PTRS_PER_PGD entries,
> where PTRS_PER_PGD is simple defined as 1024.
>
> The attached patch applies the mips64 approach to the mips code.
>
> Should USER_PTRS_PER_PGD be defined as (TASK_SIZE/PGDIR_SIZE) + 1?
You mean ((TASK_SIZE)+1)/PGDIR_SIZE?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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