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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.12: remove VALID_PAGE


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > [ pte_pfn ]
>
> Do you have an example, where that would be useful?



> I know these are special cases, but this covers everything that's
> currently needed.

.. but the _design_ is bad (limited usability anywhere else). And my
suggested interface is actually likely to generate better code, ie instead
of having two tests (one inside "pte_valid_page()", and one on the return
value), you'd only have one (in "valid_pfn()").

The whole notion of "pte_valid_page()" is horrible: you're doing two
_completely_ different things in the function - validation and "pte->page"
conversion. That's bad programming.

Linus

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