From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: righi.andrea@gmail.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488E3020.1040701@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728133030.8b29fa5a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> I can second that. See
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/include-asm-generic-pgtable-nopmdh-macros-are-noxious-reason-435.patch
>
> Ingo cruelly ignored it. Probably he's used to ignoring the comit
> storm which I send in his direction - I'll need to resend it sometime.
>
> I'd consider that patch to be partial - we should demacroize the
> surrounding similar functions too. But that will require a bit more
> testing.
Its immediate neighbours should be easy enough (pmd_alloc_one,
__pmd_free_tlb), but any of the ones involving pmd_t risk #include hell
(though the earlier references to pud_t in inline functions suggest it
will work). And pmd_addr_end is just ugly.
J
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 15:51 Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 16:17 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 16:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-28 17:19 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-28 20:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-07-28 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() and __pmd_free_tlb() implementation Andrea Righi
2008-07-31 16:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-31 16:59 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation James Bottomley
2008-07-28 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 16:58 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-28 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 20:08 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation -> instrumentation Mathieu Desnoyers
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