linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:24 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	righi.andrea@...il.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation

Andrew Morton wrote:
> I can second that.  See
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/include-asm-generic-pgtable-nopmdh-macros-are-noxious-reason-435.patch
>
> Ingo cruelly ignored it.  Probably he's used to ignoring the comit
> storm which I send in his direction - I'll need to resend it sometime.
>
> I'd consider that patch to be partial - we should demacroize the
> surrounding similar functions too.  But that will require a bit more
> testing.

Its immediate neighbours should be easy enough (pmd_alloc_one, 
__pmd_free_tlb), but any of the ones involving pmd_t risk #include hell 
(though the earlier references to pud_t in inline functions suggest it 
will work).  And pmd_addr_end is just ugly.

    J

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