linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, ptdump: Add the functionality to dump an arbitrary pagetable

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Message-ID: <52D746D9.7030206@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:41:29 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux EFI <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, ptdump: Add the functionality to dump an arbitrary
 pagetable

On 1/15/2014 5:44 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> On 01/15/14 at 06:11am, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 01/14/2014 05:16 PM, Dave Young wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why the [Finnish] do you feel that information needs to be in a
>>>> different form because it is (currently!) not available as a module?
>>>
>>> I think moving them to comment can avoid including extra linux/module.h
>>>
>>
>> And that matters, why?
>
> At least the code will be cleaner and kernel size will be a bit smaller?
>

making something harder to grep and less standardized is hardly cleaner
and these things compile to nothing for non-modules.


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