From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 16:43:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528d791b-dda4-26f2-f604-f27c645b9011@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170522141149.9ef84bb0713769f4af0383f0@linux-foundation.org>
On 05/23/2017 02:41 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:47:42 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> There are many places where we define size either left shifting integers
>> or multiplying 1024s without any generic definition to fall back on. But
>> there are couples of (powerpc and lz4) attempts to define these standard
>> memory sizes. Lets move these definitions to core VM to make sure that
>> all new usage come from these definitions eventually standardizing it
>> across all places.
> Grep further - there are many more definitions and some may now
> generate warnings.
Yeah, warning reports started coming in. Will try to change
all of those to follow the new definitions added.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 11:17 [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual
2017-05-22 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2017-05-23 7:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-23 8:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-05-23 8:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-23 11:19 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-05-24 6:40 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-05-24 14:31 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-29 10:55 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-09 2:54 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-05-29 11:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-23 11:13 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2017-05-23 6:41 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-23 7:24 ` kbuild test robot
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