From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: REAL_PTRS_PER_PMD and TIF_32BIT
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:08:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040316130853.2ce57f91.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87llm08qho.fsf@uga.edu>
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:03:23 -0500
Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu> wrote:
> I notice that in the kernel "pmd" is used to mean both the second
> level page table, consisting of 2048 four-byte entries, and also as
> shorthand for one of those entries. Did you intentionally use
> all-caps for "PMD" to distinguish it from a second-level page table
> entry?
It's just sylistic for C code that CPP macros are capitalized,
that's all.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 20:51 REAL_PTRS_PER_PMD and TIF_32BIT Ed L Cashin
2004-03-16 20:58 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-16 21:03 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-16 21:08 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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