On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 19:00 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Some HW invert some PTE bits. In some case, __pte(0) is not 0 so the PTEs 
> shall
> be properly set prior to being used.

__pte(0) is always zero.  If that changes in a future patch, that patch
is not doing the right thing.  The __pte()/pte_val() accesors should not
do anything beyond boxing/unboxing the value in a struct.  The right
place for special 8xx handling of the inverted bit is in pte_mkwrite()
and such.

I don't see any other architecture using __pte()/pte_val() this way.

-Scott


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