linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86,apic: Use PAGE

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Date:	Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:36:50 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	x86team <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86,apic: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numbers

[Maciej W. Rozycki - Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:28:05PM +0000]
| On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| 
| > The whole page is reserved for IO-APIC fixmap
| > due to non-cacheable requirement. So lets note
| > this explicitly instead of playing with numbers.
| > 
| > CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
| > CC: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
| > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
| > ---
| 
| Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...ux-mips.org>
| 
|  Is PAGE_SIZE still always 4kB for the x86 these days?  If so, then your 
| change makes sense to me.

Yeah, as far as I know. I didn't find any sign if we going to
change PAGE_SHIFT.

| 
|   Maciej
| 
	-- Cyrill
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