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SubjectRe: 2.6.18 Headers - Long
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On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:35 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
> I will only document one issue, but there are several more like this
> in the kernel.

Please elaborate, preferably in 'diff -u' form as below...

> I'm going to use the MIPS architecture in my example, along with the
> file page.h.

[PATCH] Reduce user-visible noise in asm-mips/page.h

Since PAGE_SIZE is variable according to configuration options, don't
expose it to userspace. Userspace should be using sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE)
instead. Move some other noise inside __KERNEL__ too while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

diff --git a/include/asm-mips/page.h b/include/asm-mips/page.h
index 6ed1151..ee2ef88 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/page.h
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__

#include <spaces.h>

-#endif
-
/*
* PAGE_SHIFT determines the page size
*/
@@ -35,7 +33,6 @@ #define PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~((1 << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1))


-#ifdef __KERNEL__
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

extern void clear_page(void * page);
@@ -168,7 +165,6 @@ #define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS (VM_READ |
#define UNCAC_ADDR(addr) ((addr) - PAGE_OFFSET + UNCAC_BASE)
#define CAC_ADDR(addr) ((addr) - UNCAC_BASE + PAGE_OFFSET)

-#endif /* defined (__KERNEL__) */

#ifdef CONFIG_LIMITED_DMA
#define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
@@ -177,4 +173,6 @@ #endif
#include <asm-generic/memory_model.h>
#include <asm-generic/page.h>

+#endif /* defined (__KERNEL__) */
+
#endif /* _ASM_PAGE_H */

--
dwmw2

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