Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 18:30:33 EST


On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers
> in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c
> While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several
> times and it wasn't that big an issue. So it's not that we
> have a big pressing problem here...

We have about 50% of them in memory.c :) But my main problem is more
that every single of them is implemented slightly differently.

Going Nick's way is a good start. If they are all consolidated to use
the same macro, they will be easier for you to change later on anyway.

Ben.


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