linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: update arch_{add,remove}

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:52:51 -0500
From:	Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>,
	"Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>,
	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: update arch_{add,remove}_memory() for radix

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 02:37:39PM -0500, Reza Arbab wrote:
>Could it be that the functions just need to be renamed 
>hash__create_mapping()/radix__create_mapping() and moved out of #ifdef 
>SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP?

Or vice-versa, maybe the callers should have been wrapped in the first 
place:

arch_add_memory() {
	...
	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP))
		vmemmap_create_mapping()
	...
}

arch_remove_memory() {
	...
	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP))
		vmemmap_remove_mapping()
	...
}

-- 
Reza Arbab