lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2009]   [Nov]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip] x86,apic: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numbers

* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> [Maciej W. Rozycki - Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:28:05PM +0000]
> | On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> |
> | > The whole page is reserved for IO-APIC fixmap
> | > due to non-cacheable requirement. So lets note
> | > this explicitly instead of playing with numbers.
> | >
> | > CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> | > CC: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
> | > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> | > ---
> |
> | Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> |
> | Is PAGE_SIZE still always 4kB for the x86 these days? If so, then your
> | change makes sense to me.
>
> Yeah, as far as I know. I didn't find any sign if we going to change
> PAGE_SHIFT.

Not in the next 10-20 years or so. (and any prediction beyond that is
pointless i suspect)

Ingo


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2009-11-08 19:07    [from the cache]
©2003-2011 Jasper Spaans