Re: [GIT PULL] x86: more header untangling

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The difference is this:
>
>  - page*.h is for page frame definitions and general
>    address space layout details that derive from the page frame.
>
>  - pgtable*.h is the pagetable hw format and all things related to it.
>   

Right.

> Sure, pgtable.h still has to inherit page.h (we cannot talk about a
> page table without knowing about a page), but not the other way around.
>
> I.e. the practical difference is not to pgtable.h, but to page.h: we stop
> polluting those places with pte_t/pteval_t/etc details that only need
> page.h.
>
> I'm sure there will be .c code fallout from moving definitions like this,
> but we'll fix those. The previous batch of changes from you stabilized
> quickly (we needed only 3 build fixes), so this approach seems to scale
> well so far.
>
> So please move those definitions to their logically consistent place and
> dont worry about the build fallout.
>   

OK.

> Another thing:
>
>   
> > arch/x86/include/asm/page-defs.h       |  155 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/page.h            |  146 +--------------------
> > arch/x86/include/asm/page_32-defs.h    |   92 +++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h         |   89 +------------
> > arch/x86/include/asm/page_64-defs.h    |  105 +++++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h         |  101 +--------------
> > arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h        |    2 +-
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-defs.h    |  227 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h         |  228 +-------------------------------
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32-defs.h |   46 +++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h      |   42 +------
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64-defs.h |   46 +++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h      |   48 +-------
> > 13 files changed, 688 insertions(+), 639 deletions(-)
> >     
>
> The splitup looks good (sans the comment above), but could you please name
> them page_types.h, pgtable_types.h, like we did it for other, cleaned up
> headers like spinlock_types.h?
>   

I considered it, but I went with -defs because 1) there are the existing 
-defs.h headers in this area, and 2) the define constants and small 
inlines as well as types.

   J
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