Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:52:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 |
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we abstracted simple types such as pte_t, pmd_t and pgd_t for one good reason: it's 3 *distinct* entities that can be confused quite easily, causing subtle VM bugs (eg. for quite some time the x86 arch had 2-level paging only, so to have a proper 3-level paging VM we needed these type checks).
i dont sense the same type of urge (and danger of mixup) wrt. the interrupt flags.
Ingo
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