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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators
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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 05:12 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > OK after sleeping on it, I'm warming to your way.
> >
> > I don't think it makes something like David's modifications any
> > easier, but mine didn't go a long way to that end either. And
> > being a more incremental approach gives us more room to move in
> > future (for example, maybe toward something that really *will*
> > accommodate the bitmap walking code nicely).
>
> I'll take a quick look at David's today.
> Just so long as we don't make them harder.
>

No, I think we may want to move to something better abstracted:
it makes things sufficiently complex that you wouldn't want to
have it open coded everywhere.

But no, you're not making it harder than the present situation.

> > So I'd be pretty happy for you to queue this up with Andrew for
> > 2.6.12. Anyone else?
>
> Oh, okay, thanks. You weren't very happy with p??_limit(addr, end),
> and good naming is important to me. I didn't care for your tentative
> p??_span or p??_span_end. Would p??_end be better? p??_enda would
> be fun for one of them...
>

pud_addr_end?



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