Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure (v4)

Paul Mackerras
2006-08-31T00:33:53Z

Dave Hansen writes:

> Why am I doing this? The OpenVZ beancounter patch hooks into the
> alloc_thread_info() path, but only in two architectures. It is silly
> to patch each and every architecture when they all just do the same
> thing. This is the first step to have a single place in which to
> do alloc_thread_info(). Oh, and this series removes about 300 lines
> of code.

... at the price of making the Kconfig help text more generic and
therefore possibly confusing on some platforms.

I really don't see much value in doing all this.

Paul.