On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:49 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:24:59AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> > Just about every architecture defines some macros to do operations on
> > pfns. They're all virtually identical. This patch consolidates all
> > of them.
> >
> > One minor glitch is that at least i386 uses them in a very skeletal
> > header file. To keep away from #include dependency hell, I stuck
> > the new definitions in a new, isolated header.
> >
> > Of all of the implementations, sh64 is the only one that varied by a
> > bit. It used some masks to ensure that any sign-extension got
> > ripped away before the arithmetic is done. This has been posted to
> > that sh64 maintainers and the development list.
> >
> > Compiles on x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64.
>
> Ehhh... Looks at this patch I wonder if you actually read the MIPS bits
> before submitting it:
>
> o replaces PFN_ALIGN with PAGE_ALIGN
Yeah, that is blatantly wrong. I have no idea what I was thinking
there.
> o replaces the IP27 definition of PFN_ALIGN with a different one.
That was part of the idea :) Was there something special about that
implementation?
> How about posting such stuff to linux-arch? No sane person follows l-k.
I was under the impression that linux-arch wasn't the kind of list which
is supposed to posted to by "normal" people. I was scolded once for
cc'ing it. If instructed so, I'd be happy to post there in the future.
-- Dave
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