linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] virtual memmap on sparsemem v3 [1/4] map and unmap

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Date:	Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:43:33 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clameter@...r.sgi.com,
	apw@...dowen.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] virtual memmap on sparsemem v3 [1/4]  map and
 unmap

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:28:19 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:

> Generally we prefer to simply *require* that the function vector be filled
> in appropriately.  So if the caller has no special needs, the caller will
> set their gen_map_kern_ops.k_pte_alloc to point at pte_alloc_kernel().
> 
> erk, pte_alloc_kernel() is a macro.  As is pmd_alloc(), etc.  Well, let
> that be a lesson to us.  What a mess.
> 
> I suppose we could go through and convert them all to inlines and then the
> compiler will generate an out-of-line copy for us.  Better would be to turn
> these things into regular, out-of-line C functions.
> 
> What a mess.
> 

Thank you for review. I'll remove this default action.

-Kame

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