Re: [PPC64] Remove LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT constant

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 10:03, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:13:20AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > Andrew, please apply:
> > 
> > For historical reasons, ppc64 has ended up with two #defines for the
> > size of a large (16M) page: LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT and HPAGE_SHIFT.  This
> > patch removes LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT in favour of the more widely used
> > HPAGE_SHIFT.
> 
> Nitpicking, "LARGE_PAGE_xxx" is used by x86/x86_64:
> 
> #define LARGE_PAGE_MASK (~(LARGE_PAGE_SIZE-1))
> #define LARGE_PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PMD_SHIFT)
> 
> Wouldnt it be nice to keep consistency between archs?

Actually, if everybody makes sure to define PMD_SHIFT, we should be able
to use common macros, right?

-- Dave

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