powerpc: shifted-by-one hidx value
0xf is considered invalid hidx value. It indicates absence of a backing HPTE. A PTE is initialized to 0xf either a) when it is new it is newly allocated to hold 4k-backing-HPTE or b) Any time it gets demoted to a 4k-backing-HPTE This patch shifts the representation by one-modulo-0xf; i.e hidx 0 is represented as 1, 1 as 2,... , and 0xf as 0. This convention lets us initialize the secondary-part of the PTE to all zeroes. PTEs are anyway zero'd when allocated. We do not have to zero them again; thus saving on the initialization. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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