Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 May 2017 14:11:49 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM |
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On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:47:42 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> There are many places where we define size either left shifting integers > or multiplying 1024s without any generic definition to fall back on. But > there are couples of (powerpc and lz4) attempts to define these standard > memory sizes. Lets move these definitions to core VM to make sure that > all new usage come from these definitions eventually standardizing it > across all places.
Grep further - there are many more definitions and some may now generate warnings.
Newly including mm.h for these things seems a bit heavyweight. I can't immediately think of a more appropriate place. Maybe printk.h or kernel.h.
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