Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:04:35 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: misc_cache_init |
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:36:04PM +0100, Frank Cornelis wrote: > I looked at some past kernel mailings and it seems like some archs need > specific caches and others don't. In order to provide these > functionalities I suggest to add somewhere to init/main.c > misc_cache_init(); > and provide an initial > #define misc_cache_init() do {} while (0) > for every architecture. > Anyone agrees on this?
We already have this under a slightly different name (Alan didn't merge it into Linus' kernel though from what I remember): pgtable_cache_init.
This was used in -ac to initialise the ARM PTE slab, as well as the x86 PAE slabs immediately after the call to kmem_cache_sizes_init.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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