From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc: Remove arch/powerpc's dependence on asm-ppc/pg{alloc, table}.h
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:30:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070430113013.GE8725@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430091846.GA15581@lst.de>
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:30:56PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > powerpc: Remove arch/powerpc's dependence on asm-ppc/pg{alloc,table}.h
> >
> > Currently, all 32-bit powerpc platforms use asm-ppc/pgtable.h and
> > asm-ppc/pgalloc.h, even when otherwise compiled with ARCH=powerpc.
> > Those asm-ppc files are a fairly nasty tangle of #ifdefs including a
> > bunch of things which shouldn't be necessary any more in arch/powerpc.
> >
> > Cleaning up that mess is going to take a while, but this patch is a
> > first step. It separates the asm-powerpc/pg{alloc,table}.h into 64
> > bit and 32 bit versions in asm-powerpc, which the basic .h files in
> > asm-powerpc select based on config. We make a few tiny tweaks to the
> > innards of the files along the way, making the outermost ifdefs
> > (double-inclusion protection and __KERNEL__) a little cleaner, and
> > #including asm-generic/pgtable.h from the top-level
> > asm-powerpc/pgtable.h (since both the old 32-bit and 64-bit versions
> > ended with such an #include).
>
> Nice cleanup. Btw, you can just kill the __KERNEL__ completely,
> neither pgalloc.h nor pgtable are exported to userspace (as in
> part of header-y or unifdef-y in include/asm-powerpc/Kbuild)
Yes, Stephen pointed that out to me. I'll get to it...
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 5:37 powerpc: Remove arch/powerpc's dependence on asm-ppc/pg{alloc, table}.h David Gibson
2007-04-30 6:30 ` David Gibson
2007-04-30 9:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-30 11:30 ` David Gibson [this message]
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