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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.21pre5aa1
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:35:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030314173550.GG1375@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303140852220.27094-100000@dhcp64-226.boston.redhat.com>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:53:09AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > Only in 2.4.21pre4aa3: 9900_aio-17.gz
> > Only in 2.4.21pre5aa1: 9900_aio-18.gz
> > 
> > 	Cleaned up the whole asm/kmap_types.h mess, moved
> > 	kmap_types.h into linux/, this must be visible
> > 	for aio and it has to be the same for all archs so it doesn't belong to
> > 	asm/.
> 
> Maybe I'm dense, maybe it's early on a friday morning, maybe
> even both ... but I don't understand why architectures without
> highmem should have kmap_types.h

it's the aio code that does some kmap_atomic in the common code, and the
kmap_atomic pretends to get a km_type parameter. Of course the km_type
parameter is optimized away at compile time if highmem is disabled, but
this allows to use kmap_atomic in common code.

Andrea

      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-14 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-14  9:08 2.4.21pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-14 10:15 ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-03-14 10:29   ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-14 12:50 ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Andrew Morton
2003-03-14 17:27   ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-14 13:39 ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-03-14 17:05   ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-03-14 17:10   ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-03-14 17:38     ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-14 18:04       ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-03-14 23:13         ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-14 13:53 ` 2.4.21pre5aa1 Rik van Riel
2003-03-14 17:35   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]

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