Re: AZFS file system proposal

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 05:24:34 EST


On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:14 +0200, Maxim Shchetynin wrote:
> Am Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:58:38 +1000
> schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 16:59 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > I wouldn't hold up merging the file system for this problem, but
> > > until it is solved, the Kconfig entry should probably have
> > > a "depends on PPC".
> >
> > Better, use an ifdef for powerpc flags, and #else to pgprot_noncached.
>
> Thank you Ben. Then, how about this?
>
> azfs_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> {
> ...
> ...
> ...
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC
> pgprot_t page_prot;
> #endif
> ...
> ...
> ...
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC
> page_prot = pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot);
> page_prot |= (_PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_RW);
> page_prot &= ~_PAGE_GUARDED;
> vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(page_prot);
> #else
> vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
> #endif
> ...

I'd rather do

pgprot_t prot;

#ifdef CONFIG_PPC
prot = <whatever>
#else
prot = pgprot_noncached(...)
#endif
vma->vm_page_prot = prot;

To limit the number of ifdef's

Cheers,
Ben.


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