Re: [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associated helper macros.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 12:01:35 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote:
> > Also, it is going to be hugepage-only, isn't it? So should the naming be
> > changed to reflect that? And #ifdef it...
>
> They are doing some interesting things on Cell that could take advantage
> of this.

That would be new to me. What we need on Cell is fixing up the
get_unmapped_area mess which Ben is working on now.

And let me once again repeat that I don't like this at all. I'll
rather have a few ugly ifdefs in strategic places than a big object
oriented mess like this with just a single user.

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