On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:49:10PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 19:35 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Perhaps we need something like:
> >
> > flags = page->flags;
> > userflags =
> > FLAG_BIT(USER_REFERENCED, flags & PG_referenced) |
> > ...
> >
> > etc. for the flags we want to export. This will let us change to
> >
> > FLAG_BIT(USER_SLAB, PageSlab(page)) |
> >
> > if we make a virtual slab bit.
>
> Yeah, that looks like a pretty sane scheme. Do we want to be any more
> abstract about it? Perhaps instead of USER_SLAB, it should be
> USER_KERNEL_INTERNAL, or USER_KERNEL_USE. The slab itself is going away
> as we speak. :)
Perhaps. SLUB is still "a slab-based allocator". SLOB isn't, but I
intend to start making it use PG_slab shortly anyway.
> > And it shows up in grep.
> >
> > Unfortunately, i386 test_bit is an asm inline and not a macro so we
> > can't hope for the compiler to fold up a bunch of identity bit
> > mappings for us.
>
> We could also Yeah, that looks like a pretty sane scheme. Do we want to
> be any more abstract about it? Perhaps instead of USER_SLAB, it should
> be USER_KERNEL_INTERNAL, or USER_KERNEL_USE. The slab itself is going
> away as we speak.
>
> For the bits that we want to export, we could also add the unoptimized
> access functions for any that don't already have them:
>
> #define __ClearPageReserved(page) __clear_bit(PG_reserved, &(page)->flags)
Confused. Why are we interested in clear?
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