Re: Questions on one PowerPC assembly instruction from hash_page

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Mikael Pettersson wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:33:22 +0800, gshan <[email protected]> wrote:
I can't understand the following instructions from arch/ppc/mm/hashtable.S::hash_page. If I got the right design, the following instruction is to get the PMD (Page Middle Descritor) because Linux for 32-bits PowerPC cut page table into 3 domains: root, PMD, PTE. The top bits (22 to 31 bit) is the index for PMD, and the next 10 bits (12 to 21 bit) is the index for PTE in the associative PMD. The remaining 12 bits (0 to 11 bit) indicated the page size (4KB). However, the following instruction polled [8-17] bits instead of [22-31] bits as expected. Anybody could give me answer?

r4 is the address that caused the DSI
r5 is the address of swapper_pg_dir if we are under kernel mode.

rlwimi r5,r4,12,20,29 /* insert top 10 bits of address */

POWER/PowerPC has an insanely broken bit numbering scheme, in
which the most significant bit has number 0 (or is it 1?),
and the least significant bit has number N-1 (or is it N?)
where N is number of bits in a word.

The fact that you refer to the top bits as 22-31 makes me
suspect that you haven't compensated for this quirk.

/Mikael
Mikael, Thanks a lot. I understood why the instruction is there. So the 0-11 bits are used as address index for PMD. swapper_pg_dir is 4KB large and there are 1K PMDs inside swapper_pg_dir. So 10 bits (0-9 bits) are used as index for PMD, right?
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