linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] move __HAVE_ARCH_PTE

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Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:03:49 -0700
From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] move __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL in Kconfig

On 04/09/2018 06:57 AM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> The per architecture __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined statically in the
> per architecture header files. This doesn't allow to make other
> configuration dependent on it.

So I understand this series has more "readability" value and I'm fine with this 
change but I wonder if you really would want to make something depend on it or 
make this de-configurable. PTE special is really a fundamental construct - e.g. it 
is used for anon mapped pages where zero page has been wired up etc...

-Vineet

> This series is moving the __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL into the Kconfig files,
> setting it automatically when architectures was already setting it in
> header file.
>
> There is no functional change introduced by this series.