From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: righi.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: 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 13:30:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728133030.8b29fa5a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488DFFB0.1090107@gmail.com>
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:19:44 +0200
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >> yep! clear.
> >>
> >> Ok, in this case wouldn't be better at least to define pud_free() as:
> >>
> >> static inline pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
> >> {
> >> }
> >
> > I also like this :)
>
> ok, a simpler patch using the inline function will follow.
>
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.
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: righi.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: 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 13:30:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728133030.8b29fa5a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488DFFB0.1090107@gmail.com>
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:19:44 +0200
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >> yep! clear.
> >>
> >> Ok, in this case wouldn't be better at least to define pud_free() as:
> >>
> >> static inline pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
> >> {
> >> }
> >
> > I also like this :)
>
> ok, a simpler patch using the inline function will follow.
>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 15:51 [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 15:51 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 16:17 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 16:17 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 16:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-28 16:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-28 17:19 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 17:19 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 20:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-28 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-28 20:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-28 20:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-28 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() and __pmd_free_tlb() implementation Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 22:53 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-31 16:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-31 16:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-31 16:59 ` Andrea Righi
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 16:17 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-28 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 16:58 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-28 16:58 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-28 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 20:08 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation -> instrumentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-28 20:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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