Re: [Patch V2 2/2] sparc64 changes

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From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:22:30 -0500

> On 03/24/2016 02:22 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:41:08 -0500
>> 
>>> +	/* Check for a huge/THP page */
>>> +	paddr = pmd_is_huge(pte, vaddr, verbose);
>>> +	if (paddr)
>>> +		goto out;
>>  ...
>>> +	paddr = pte_to_pa(pte);
>>> +	paddr = paddr | (vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK);
>> 
>> This handles transparent huge pages installed at the PMD level, but I don't
>> see that it handles huge PTEs properly, which are encoded at the PTE level.
> 
> I've been looking at the huge page code again and I'm not sure what I'm
> missing. Isn't there still a huge PTE in the page table for every 8K
> page with the proper physical address bits?

Yes there is a huge PTE encoded every 8K, but I'm wondering about the
address masking et al. you are doing here...

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