From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:58:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040715205826.GA10378@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040616163339.GA27891@sgi.com>
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:01:08AM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> > No. Please don't make random sal calls from modules.
>
> We're only making one sal call (i.e., SN_SAL_GET_PARTITION_ADDR) to get the
> address of a partition's reserved page.
Then please provide some accessor from core SN2 code. If that partition addr
is constant after bootup a global variable should do it, else a small wrapper
function.
> In include/asm-ia64/sn/sn_sal.h, there are inline functions that are wrappers
> for the SAL_CALL() macro, (for example, ia64_sn_get_console_nasid()). Is this
> what you are looking for? (But even if we did create such a function, we'd
> still need to export sal_lock and ia64_sal because both are referenced by the
> SAL_CALL() macro.) I'd hate to put such an abstraction into sal.c, since the
> functionality of my sal call is ia64/sn specific, and sal.c is generic
> ia64.
similar to that, just not inline.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-15 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-16 16:33 [PATCH 1/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality Dean Nelson
2004-06-16 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 17:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-16 17:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 17:40 ` Robin Holt
2004-06-16 17:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 19:36 ` Robin Holt
2004-07-14 16:01 ` Dean Nelson
2004-07-14 16:04 ` Dean Nelson
2004-07-15 12:47 ` Dean Nelson
2004-07-15 20:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-07-15 21:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-15 21:16 ` Jack Steiner
2004-07-29 16:10 ` Dean Nelson
2004-07-30 22:15 ` Luck, Tony
2004-07-31 12:46 ` Robin Holt
2004-08-10 19:54 ` Dean Nelson
2004-08-12 15:10 ` Dean Nelson
2004-08-23 16:50 ` Dean Nelson
2004-08-23 17:10 ` Dean Nelson
2004-08-23 17:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-23 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-23 19:16 ` Dean Nelson
2004-09-14 18:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (1st revision) Dean Nelson
2004-10-21 8:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-21 11:01 ` Dean Nelson
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