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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: cleanup - use PAGE_SIZE instead of numeric	constant in boot code
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:59:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BDD820.2050602@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080221195628.GB6772@cvg>

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> [H. Peter Anvin - Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:52:56AM -0800]
>> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>>> This patch replaces 4096 numeric constant with PAGE_SIZE macro.
>>> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> Text segments of old and new files *are* the same so
>>> it wouldn't break current kernel.
>> NAK.
>>
>> This is NOT PAGE_SIZE (even though the two values are coincidentally the 
>> same, for historical reasons.)
>>
>> 	-hpa
>>
> 
> hmm, why the comment on boot_param structure definition calls
> it "zeropage"? Anyway really thanks for review and catched this.
> 

Historical reasons... it used to be a "magic page" -- that's long since 
gone.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 19:50 [PATCH] x86: cleanup - use PAGE_SIZE instead of numeric constant in boot code Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-21 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-21 19:56   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-21 19:59     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-21 20:00       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-21 20:05         ` H. Peter Anvin

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