From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 headers: include linux/types.h
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:25:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49959EFA.8040507@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090213122724.GA2172@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Regarding the fixlet below - wouldnt PTE_FLAGS_MASK be better placed in
> pgtable_types.h ? It's specifically related to the pte format. OTOH we
> have a lot of PTE details in the page_*types.h files already.
>
No, you're right.
> The boundary between page_types.h and pgtable_types.h does not seem to
> be clear to me - what is the principle you followed?
>
Well, basically anything to do with the internals of a pte*_t go in
pgtable.h. PTE_*_MASK should go there too, and is an oversight (though
its on the margin because of its dependency on the page size/mask
definitions in page*.h).
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 23:23 [GIT PULL] clean header untangling Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 12:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 12:18 ` [PATCH] x86 headers: remove duplicate pud_large() definition Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 12:23 ` [PATCH] x86 headers: include linux/types.h Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 12:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 12:37 ` [PATCH] x86 headers: protect page_32.h via __ASSEMBLY__ Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 18:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 18:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 18:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 18:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 16:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-02-13 18:09 ` [PATCH] x86 headers: include linux/types.h Ingo Molnar
2009-02-16 21:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 18:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 18:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 18:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 20:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 18:57 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-13 16:27 ` [PATCH] x86 headers: remove duplicate pud_large() definition Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-13 18:02 ` Ingo Molnar
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