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Re: [PATCH, RESEND] asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page help

from [David Rientjes] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RESEND] asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page helpers
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:07:14 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> 
> We have two different implementation of is_zero_pfn() and
> my_zero_pfn() helpers: for architectures with and without zero page
> coloring.
> 
> Let's consolidate them in <asm-generic/pgtable.h>.
> 

What's the benefit from doing this other than generalizing some per-arch 
code?  It simply adds on more layer of redirection to try to find the 
implementation that matters for the architecture you're hacking on.
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