linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early

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Date:	Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:44:27 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem
 before slab

On 02/09/2010 02:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> err, crap, yeah.
> 
> It would be nice to fix all this up, and get the private round_up()
> stuff out of x86 and into kernel.h.
> 
> The present naming scheme is ghastly:
> 
> ALIGN
> DIV_ROUND_UP
> roundup
> round_up
> round_down
> 
> Where round_up and ALIGN are kinda maybe the same.
> 

Yes indeed.  It seems to be something for a separate patchset, though,
since it will touch stuff across a lot of code.

	-hpa

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