Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:33:53 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure (v4) |
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Dave Hansen writes:
> Why am I doing this? The OpenVZ beancounter patch hooks into the > alloc_thread_info() path, but only in two architectures. It is silly > to patch each and every architecture when they all just do the same > thing. This is the first step to have a single place in which to > do alloc_thread_info(). Oh, and this series removes about 300 lines > of code.
... at the price of making the Kconfig help text more generic and therefore possibly confusing on some platforms.
I really don't see much value in doing all this.
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