From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F414E6B003D for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:41:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by bwz28 with SMTP id 28so2592230bwz.14 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:41:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <16182.1234199195@redhat.com> References: <1232919337-21434-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com> <16182.1234199195@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:41:37 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH -mmotm] mm: unify some pmd_*() functions From: Andrea Righi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Howells Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM, David Howells wrote: > Andrea Righi wrote: > >> Unify all the identical implementations of pmd_free(), __pmd_free_tlb(), >> pmd_alloc_one(), pmd_addr_end() in include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h > > NAK for FRV on two fronts: This patch generates too many followup fixes and it's better to simply drop it for now. I think we need to use a different approach and, more important, we need to clean a lot of .h files before to avoid the include hell problems. -Andrea > > (1) The definition of pud_t in pgtable-nopud.h: > > typedef struct { pgd_t pgd; } pud_t; > > is not consistent with the one in FRV's page.h: > > typedef struct { unsigned long ste[64];} pmd_t; > typedef struct { pmd_t pue[1]; } pud_t; > typedef struct { pud_t pge[1]; } pgd_t; > > The upper intermediate page table is contained within the page directory > entry, not the other way around. Having a pgd_t inside a pud_t is > upside-down, illogical and makes things harder to follow IMNSHO. > > (2) It produces the following errors: > > mm/memory.c: In function 'free_pmd_range': > mm/memory.c:176: error: implicit declaration of function '__pmd_free_tlb' > CC fs/seq_file.o > mm/memory.c: In function '__pmd_alloc': > mm/memory.c:2896: error: implicit declaration of function 'pmd_alloc_one_bug' > mm/memory.c:2896: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast > mm/memory.c:2905: error: implicit declaration of function 'pmd_free' > > David -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org