linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/4] x86: fix up asm-x86/pgtable*.h formatting

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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:34:13 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/4] x86: fix up asm-x86/pgtable*.h formatting

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:55:33PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> +#define set_pte_atomic(pteptr, pteval)		set_pte(pteptr,pteval)
> +#define set_pte_present(mm,addr,ptep,pteval)	set_pte_at(mm,addr,ptep,pteval)
>  
> +#define pte_clear(mm,addr,xp)				\
> +	do {						\
> +		set_pte_at(mm, addr, xp, __pte(0));	\
> +	} while (0)
> +
>  #undef pmd_clear
> +#define pmd_clear(xp)				\
> +	do {					\
> +		set_pmd(xp, __pmd(0));		\
> +	} while (0)

What about turning these into inline functions to get better type
checking?

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