linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: cleanup - use PAGE_SIZE instead of numeric constant in boot code

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:56:28 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: cleanup - use PAGE_SIZE instead of numeric
	constant in boot code

[H. Peter Anvin - Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:52:56AM -0800]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> This patch replaces 4096 numeric constant with PAGE_SIZE macro.
>> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
>> ---
>> Text segments of old and new files *are* the same so
>> it wouldn't break current kernel.
>
> NAK.
>
> This is NOT PAGE_SIZE (even though the two values are coincidentally the 
> same, for historical reasons.)
>
> 	-hpa
>

hmm, why the comment on boot_param structure definition calls
it "zeropage"? Anyway really thanks for review and catched this.

		- Cyrill -
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