Re: powerpc: Remove arch/powerpc's dependence on asm-ppc/pg{alloc, table}.h

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:30:56PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > powerpc: Remove arch/powerpc's dependence on asm-ppc/pg{alloc,table}.h
> > 
> > Currently, all 32-bit powerpc platforms use asm-ppc/pgtable.h and
> > asm-ppc/pgalloc.h, even when otherwise compiled with ARCH=powerpc.
> > Those asm-ppc files are a fairly nasty tangle of #ifdefs including a
> > bunch of things which shouldn't be necessary any more in arch/powerpc.
> > 
> > Cleaning up that mess is going to take a while, but this patch is a
> > first step.  It separates the asm-powerpc/pg{alloc,table}.h into 64
> > bit and 32 bit versions in asm-powerpc, which the basic .h files in
> > asm-powerpc select based on config.  We make a few tiny tweaks to the
> > innards of the files along the way, making the outermost ifdefs
> > (double-inclusion protection and __KERNEL__) a little cleaner, and
> > #including asm-generic/pgtable.h from the top-level
> > asm-powerpc/pgtable.h (since both the old 32-bit and 64-bit versions
> > ended with such an #include).
> 
> Nice cleanup.  Btw, you can just kill the __KERNEL__ completely,
> neither pgalloc.h nor pgtable are exported to userspace (as in
> part of header-y or unifdef-y in include/asm-powerpc/Kbuild)

Yes, Stephen pointed that out to me.  I'll get to it...

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