Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure (v4)

[Paul Mackerras]

Dave Hansen writes:

> Why am I doing this?  The OpenVZ beancounter patch hooks into the
> alloc_thread_info() path, but only in two architectures.  It is silly
> to patch each and every architecture when they all just do the same
> thing.  This is the first step to have a single place in which to
> do alloc_thread_info().  Oh, and this series removes about 300 lines
> of code.

... at the price of making the Kconfig help text more generic and
therefore possibly confusing on some platforms.

I really don't see much value in doing all this.

Paul.
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