From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2][PATCH 00/35] consolidate pte mapping functions across all architectures
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:06:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A147EEC.4000807@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090520182445.D7B49A7C@kernel>
Dave Hansen wrote:
> The steps are as follows, and should be bisectable:
> 1. Break out all the functions into a new asm/ptemap.h and
> include it in place of the original functions.
> 2. Move linux/mm.h arch-independent pte mapping code to
> linux/ptemap.h, include asm/ptemap.h there
> 3. Include linux/ptemap.h directly at all use sites
> (only 39 of these kernel-wide)
> 4. Standardize all the implementations to use
> pte_offset_kernel() as the basis for pte_offset_map()
> whenever possible.
> 5. Create asm-generic/ptemap.h and consolidate all the
> architectures that share the pte_offset_kernel()
> implementations.
> 6. Consolidate the three HIGHPTE implementations (x86,
> frv, ppc64) in asm-generic/ptemap.h.
> 7. Remove the direct asm/ptemap.h includes.
>
This is a nice cleanup. Did you consider going an extra step and
converting all the macros into #defines?
J
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 18:24 [RFC v2][PATCH 00/35] consolidate pte mapping functions across all architectures Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 01/35] rename arm and frv's __pte_index() Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 02/35] rework sparc pte functions to be consistent with other arches Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 03/35] alpha: create ptemap.h Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 04/35] arm: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 05/35] avr32: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 06/35] cris: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 07/35] frv: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 08/35] ia64: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:24 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 09/35] m32r: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 10/35] m68k: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 11/35] mips: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 12/35] mn10300: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 13/35] parisc: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 14/35] powerpc: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 15/35] s390: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 16/35] sh: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 17/35] sparc: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 18/35] um: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 19/35] x86: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 20/35] xtensa: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 21/35] create linux/ptemap.h for arch-independent pte mapping funcs Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 22/35] include linux/ptemap.h at all use sites Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 23/35] factor x86 pte mapping code Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 24/35] arm: use pte_offset_kernel() as base for pte_offset_map*() Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 25/35] cris: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 26/35] frv: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 27/35] m32r: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 28/35] mips: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 29/35] um: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 30/35] m68k: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 31/35] mn10300: " Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 32/35] Move users to asm-generic/ptemap.h Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 33/35] asm-generic/ptemap.h for HIGHPTE implementations Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 34/35] powerpc use generic ptemap.h Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 18:25 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 35/35] remove old ptemap.h includes Dave Hansen
2009-05-20 22:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-05-20 22:38 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 00/35] consolidate pte mapping functions across all architectures Dave Hansen
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